Chinese immigrant attacked US church over 'hatred of Taiwan': Probe

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LOS ANGELES: A Chinese immigrant who padlocked a church and opened fire on its Taiwanese-American congregation, killing one person and injuring five others, was motivated by hatred of the

, killing one person and injuring five others, was motivated by hatred of the island and its people, US investigators said Monday .

"We know that he formulated a strategy that he wanted to employ," Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said. Taiwan has been ruled independently since the end of a civil war in 1949. It has its own democratically elected government and military.

 

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