A former head of a street housing maintenance cooperative, accused of staging a knife rampage at the cooperative office in Cheonho-dong, Gangdong District, Seoul, leaving three people dead or injured, was handed over to prosecutors while detained.
The Gangdong Police Station in Seoul said on the 13th that it had sent a man in his 60s, a suspect in the knife rampage and a person surnamed Cho, to the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office under arrest on charges including murder.
Cho is accused of wielding a weapon against cooperative officials at the office at about 10:20 a.m. on the 4th, killing one person and seriously injuring two others.
Cho also expressed his intention to give up the pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant review) scheduled at the Seoul Eastern District Court on the 6th. The same afternoon, the court issued an arrest warrant for Cho, citing "concerns about destruction of evidence and risk of flight."
Cho, who had been the immediate past head of the cooperative, was booked in July on suspicion of molesting one of the injured and was dismissed from the post. Four days before the crime, on Oct. 31, prosecutors summarily indicted Cho on a charge of indecent assault by force.