A Vietnamese man was shot by police in Taipei early yesterday morning after the man pushed a police officer and attempted to flee a roadside inspection, police said.
The man, in his 40s, was traveling in a taxi when four policemen who were carrying out roadside tests pulled the vehicle over for an inspection in a Xinhai Road underpass at about 1am, the Taipei City Police Department’s Daan Precinct said.
When the taxi approached the inspection point, the police “sensed that something was wrong because the passenger looked nervous, so they asked the driver to pull over,” Heping East Road Department Chief Lin Chieh-wei (林劼緯) told reporters by telephone.
As one police offer checked the taxi driver’s license and ID, another asked the Vietnamese man to identify himself, but he did not respond, Lin said.
Instead, “the man suddenly pushed the police officer toward the fast lane of the road and ran out of the underpass,” Lin added.
Three police officers chased the suspect for about 250 meters, Lin said.
After failing to stop him with verbal warnings, one of the police officers fired five warning shots toward the ground, one of which hit the man on the right hip, Lin said.
The man fell to the ground and was then arrested and taken to hospital, the Daan Police Precinct said, adding that the man did not lose consciousness and his condition is not critical following treatment.
According to police, the man came to Taiwan to work in 2011 and was reported missing two years later.
According to police, he fled in an attempt to conceal his runaway status.
After questioning, the man was charged with obstructing an officer in the line of duty.
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