One student was stabbed to death and two seriously injured early yesterday morning in a gang-related turf war at a park in Tienmu.
Nineteen-year-old Lu Ling-wei (
The group was allegedly led by nineteen-year-old Chen Ming-te (
The Tienmu branch of the Bamboo Union was involved in a territorial dispute with a local group of which Lu was a member, Shihlin police told a local newspaper.
Three of those attacked escaped on foot, but Lu and two other victims were cornered by the gang. Lu was pinned to the ground by Chen and his accomplices and suffered multiple stab wounds, dying on the spot, police reported.
Another of the victims nearly had his hand severed in the attack, while the second suffered stab wounds to the eye. Both have been hospitalized and are in a critical condition.
Chen, whose hand was cut in the attack, admitted himself to Taipei's Yangming Hospital (
Chen initially took full responsibility for all of the violence, but later gave up the names of his associates, saying that three others were involved in the stabbings. Chen also admitted supplying his fellow gang members with knives.
Police arrested ten other suspects in the attack yesterday morning, local media reported.
Animosity between the two groups of youths started in junior high school, police said, and has escalated since then.
Over the past two to three years there have been a number of territorial fights in Tienmu between the local branch of the Bamboo Gang, led by a man who goes by the moniker "Hsiao Kao" (
The latest fight began when Chen Ming-teh, the son of vegetable vendors at the Shihlin Night Market, discovered Lu's white BMW parked in an alley off Tienmu West Road. Chen then gathered together other gang members and went in search of Lu.
Police are presently searching for leaders of the Tienmu branch of the Bamboo Union to determine their connection to the violence.
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