The police yesterday announced that they have uncovered information that could soon lead to the arrest of the gunman responsible for the attempted assassination of the president and vice president in Tainan on March 19.
"According to our investigation, the suspect is in the Taipei metropolitan area, and we are currently working on 11 pieces of useful information. These leads could help us make an arrest very soon," Commissioner Hou You-yi (侯友宜) of the National Police Administration Criminal Investigation Bureau told the legislature's Judicial Committee yesterday morning.
The information to which Hou was referring stemmed from the arrest in Kaohsiung last week of three alleged drug dealers, Chang Ming-jiunn (張銘俊), Lin Chia-han (林家漢) and Chu Wen-hsiu (朱雯秀).
The trio were initially suspected of the assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian (
During yesterday's meeting at the Legislative Yuan, Hou refused to provide more information due to concern that this might cause the suspect to flee.
According to the Kaohsiung City Police Department, Chang told them that he has a friend in Taipei who possessed an 8mm pistol. This is similar to the weapon used to shoot the president and Lu when they were campaigning in Tainan.
The police said they have reason to believe that the friend knows something about the shooting and are trying to find him.
When Chang, Lin and Chu were arrested on May 14, the police discovered an 8mm German-made pistol, a 9mm homemade pistol barrel and 33 lead and copper bullets, similar to the weapon and ammunition used in the shooting.
The forensic scientist Henry Lee's (
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