The gunman who allegedly killed a doctor and wounded five others after opening fire in a California church was charged with murder on Tuesday, officials …
The gunman who allegedly killed a doctor and wounded five others after opening fire in a California church was charged with murder on Tuesday, officials said. David Chou, 68, of Las Vegas, will be eligible for the death penalty for attempting to “execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible” during the mass shooting, prosecutors said Tuesday.
“This is not a case that I’m ruling out for death,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said at a press conference. Chou allegedly lurked inside of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods for hours before he chained the doors shut and started shooting worshippers inside.
“He did everything he could to fit in, to make himself one of them,” Spitzer said. Chou, a licensed security guard in Nevada, had intended to kill as many people as possible.
“He had the ammunition to do it. He had the weaponry to do it.
