20s Suspected of Murder and Carrying a Weapon Arrested at Gangnam Terminal

SNS Threatens 'Police Killing'

A man in his 20s, Heo Mo, who was wandering around Seoul Gangnam Express Bus Terminal with a weapon, has been arrested by the police.

A man in his 20s, Heo Mo, who was caught wandering with a weapon at the Gangnam Express Bus Terminal in Seoul, is heading to court.
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At 2 p.m. on the 6th, Yoodonggyun, the duty judge at Seoul Central District Court, conducted a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing) for about an hour and then issued an arrest warrant, citing "risk of flight." When Heo appeared in the warrant hearing courtroom, he responded to reporters' questions about "why he went to the terminal carrying a weapon" by saying, "It was to commit suicide. I was going to stab my neck with the knife."

Seoul Seocho Police Station arrested Heo on the morning of the 4th at 10:45 a.m. at a commercial area on the first floor of the Gyeongbu Line building at Seoul Express Bus Terminal on charges of special intimidation in flagrante delicto. Heo had posted on social media (SNS) in the early morning of the same day a message stating "I will stab and kill a police officer," and is suspected of carrying a weapon around the express bus terminal.

At 10:39 a.m. on the 4th, the police responded to a security guard's report that "there is a man carrying a knife at the express bus terminal," arrested Heo, and confiscated two weapons. At the time of arrest, Heo was only charged with threatening the security guard, but after considering his SNS posts and other factors indicating an actual intent to kill, a charge of attempted murder was added.

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