Police Request Arrest Warrant for 20-Year-Old in Bundang Seohyeon Station Stabbing Incident

The police have requested an arrest warrant for the suspect, Choi Mo (22), who indiscriminately wielded a weapon near Seohyeon Station in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi Province on the 3rd, injuring 14 people.

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The Southern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency's special investigation team for the weapon rampage case applied attempted murder charges to Choi on the 4th and filed for an arrest warrant around 9 p.m. Choi is accused of wildly swinging a weapon at citizens on the 1st and 2nd floors of the AK Plaza department store in Seohyeon-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi Province at 5:59 p.m. the previous day. Nine citizens were injured, eight of whom sustained serious injuries.

Just before the weapon rampage, Choi drove a Morning passenger car and crashed from the road in front of the department store onto the sidewalk, hitting pedestrians before entering the department store and carrying out a 'random' weapon rampage. Five people were injured in the vehicle crash, four of whom were seriously injured, and among them, two are reported to be in critical condition with possible brain death.

Choi was urgently arrested by the police at 6:05 p.m., six minutes after the initial report was received. Choi was diagnosed with 'schizoid personality disorder (schizotypal personality disorder)' in 2020 but has not received psychiatric treatment in the past three years.

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