The Supreme Court has today rejected appeals for eight involved in submachine gun shootings at two sites linked to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Tainan’s Syuejia District (學甲) on Nov. 10, 2022.
Gang leader Hung Cheng-chun (洪政軍) was handed 10 years, while gunman Kung Hsiang-chih's (孔祥志) eight-year sentence was finalized.
Wang Wen-tsung (王文宗), chairman of Tainan’s Cihji Temple, was accused of being the mastermind behind the incident, although due to insufficient evidence, he was handed a six-month sentence that was commuted to a fine for harboring criminals, a verdict the Supreme Court upheld today.
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Hung instructed gunman Kung to shoot 88 rounds at two locations: 58 at a business owned by then-DPP Central Executive Committee member Kuo Tsai-chin (郭再欽) and 30 rounds at the campaign headquarters of former independent Tainan city councilor Hsieh Tsai-wang's (謝財旺) daughter, Hsieh Shu-fan (謝舒凡), who was a DPP candidate for the Tainan City Council at the time.
Kung carried out the attack while riding a motorcycle and used an unregistered submachine gun.
No one was injured in the incident.
On Nov. 27 last year, a second trial at the High Court’s Tainan branch upheld the 10-year sentence for Hung and eight years for Kung.
The Supreme Court further finalized sentences for accomplices Yang Chan-hua (楊展華) and Kuo Chien-chang (郭建彰), who each received five months, while driver Lee Chi-han (李奇漢) who was found innocent in the first trial, today had his sentence upheld, receiving one year for aiding and abetting.
Two additional suspects were acquitted.
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