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Police investigate why bowler might have killed herself

The suicide Friday night of national bowling team member Tseng Sue-fan (曾素芬) is being investigated by police, who say Tseng's alleged relationship with a married man could have been behind her decision to kill herself.

Tseng, 27, leapt to her death Friday night at 7:40pm, from the 10th floor of the building where she lived, according to officers at the Taipei City Police Headquarters' Chungshan precinct.

The officers said they are investigating the relationship between Tseng and her alleged boyfriend, Lin Ming-chia (林命嘉).

The police said a witness claimed that Lin arrived at Tseng's apartment and took her cellphone and suicide note after Tseng jumped out of the building where she lived on Changchun Road in Taipei on Friday night.

According to police, Lin told officers Tseng called him on Friday around 6pm and sounded upset. He said he decided to go to her home, but when he arrived he didn't see Tseng in her third floor apartment.

Police said Lin told him he then decided to take her cellphone so he could figure out who she had been in contact with so as to determine where she was. He also said that he took a note that had been left on a table.

Lin told the police that he had no idea that Tseng had committed suicide until the security guard at the building told him what happened after he went down to the first floor on his way out.

"We are now trying to figure out the relationship between them. Maybe that was the reason why she committed suicide," an officer from the precinct's Criminal Investigation Section said.

Taipei Prosecutor Yang Chung-ping (楊仲萍) said the only thing investigators can confirm at this stage is that Tseng's death did not involve a third party.

"According to a forensic pathologist, Tseng's death was caused by falling down from a high location which did match the evidence we collected from the scene. There's no sign of a murder," she said.
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