Late Night Male Wandering Residential Area with a Weapon... Police Arrest Him, Turns Out He Was "Looking for a Target"

Police Agency conveys the situation at the time through YouTube video

A man wandering with a weapon in a dark residential alley was subdued by the police. On the 27th, a video titled "Suspicious Man with a Knife" posted on the official YouTube channel of the National Police Agency showed a driver hurriedly leaving after seeing the man holding a knife.

[Image source=Captured from the National Police Agency YouTube channel]

According to the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage at the time, at 11:11 PM in a quiet residential alley, a man was staring at a car that was parking. The driver, who was parking, became suspicious of the man lingering in the alley and left the spot again because the man was holding a weapon. Shortly after, a report was received at 112 stating, "A suspicious man is wandering in a dark alley holding a large knife."

The police who arrived at the scene surrounded the alley entrances and the parking lot in advance to prevent the man from escaping and began searching for him. They then found a man standing at the entrance of a villa with his hands behind his back, seemingly inspecting something. The police asked the man, who was hiding his hands, to "raise your hands and show them," but he did not comply and calmly kept his hands behind his back. When the police shouted firmly, "Hands up! Put down the knife and lie face down on the ground!" the man threw the weapon on the ground and surrendered. The police used shields and formed a line to subdue the man.

Netizens who saw the video responded with comments such as, "Support to the police officers who quickly subdued him before greater harm occurred," "It's hard to believe this is South Korea, having to worry about someone with a knife in an alley," and "The driver handled the situation calmly and well."

According to the police investigation, the man was wandering around the alley looking for a target to rob without having a specific victim in mind. The police booked the man on charges of violating the Act on the Punishment of Violent Crimes, etc. (possession of a weapon).

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