“With out the actions of Dr. Cheng, it’s little doubt that there can be quite a few extra victims on this crime,” Sheriff Barnes stated.
Johnna Gherardini, the medical heart’s government director, stated that Dr. Cheng, who was not a church member, had picked up his mom from her residence at Laguna Woods Village and brought her to church on Sunday. She stated that Dr. Cheng, who grew up in Texas, was not non secular and didn’t have robust political beliefs about China, however was there in solidarity together with his mom, who was mourning the current dying of his father.
The doctor, who’s survived by his spouse and two teenage youngsters, was additionally an completed grasp martial arts teacher.
“He was there for a cause,” Ms. Gherardini stated.
The shooter had secured the church doorways with chains and had tried to disable the locks with glue, the sheriff stated, including that he additionally tried to nail one of many constructing’s doorways shut. Luggage full of magazines of ammunition, in addition to a number of incendiary units, have been discovered contained in the church, Sheriff Barnes stated.
“Nearly all of the folks in attendance have been aged, they usually acted spontaneously and heroically,” Sheriff Barnes stated. “And if not for his or her fast motion, the way in which that this particular person arrange that surroundings to kill many extra folks, there would have been many, many extra lives misplaced.”
The authorities stated the suspect fired contained in the church whereas the members ate lunch after a morning service. The churchgoers hogtied the gunman with an extension twine and confiscated two weapons earlier than deputies arrived and took him into custody, Sheriff Barnes stated.
