On the 11th, Choi Seong-woo (29), whose personal information was disclosed for the indiscriminate assault and murder of a neighbor resident in an APT., was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the first trial.
The 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul Northern District Court (Director General Lee Tae-woong presiding) sentenced Choi Seong-woo, who was indicted for murder, to 30 years in prison and 5 years of probation on this day.
Choi Seong-woo became delusional on August 20 last year, believing that a neighbor in his 70s, whom he randomly encountered at a smoking area in a certain APT. in Jungnang-gu, was harming him and his mother. Thus, he is accused of indiscriminately assaulting the neighbor by punching him dozens of times in the face and head and smashing his head with a landscaping stone, resulting in the neighbor's death.