The tragedy that finally happened, in this family, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
A man from Pingdong, Chen (age 27), was displeased at how his father had abused his own mother long-term, early yesterday morning, he saw his father abusing his mother verbally and physically again, the father and son got into a verbal disagreement, which exacerbated into physical violence, and, the son accidentally stabbed his own father to death, as the police interrogated him, he’d started crying, “I’d killed my own father to protect my mother, I’m very regretful of what I’d done.”
After the accident, Chen sat, dumbfounded by his father, asked his younger brother to call up the police, the police rushed to the scene, immediately lifted Chen’s father to the hospital, but he’d still died, and the mother begged the police constantly, “go easy on him”, “my son is truly, a fitting child.”, Chen’s grandmother yesterday had, gotten down on her knees, begged the world around to “save my grandson”.
The neighbors told, that since Chen was young, he and his younger brother had helped out with the family’s lamb hotpot shop, their father was into drinking and gambling, rarely bugged about the goings on in the store, the business was held up by the mother, the two brothers, after they’d graduated college, they’d, immediately returned home to help with the business, they’d lived in a mansion locally with the parents, and all the neighbors said he was a, very good son.
The police investigated, that Chen’s father (age 51) was emotionally unstable for long-term, and would use physical violence on his own wife after he got drunk, suspecting she was cheating on him, and, for the years that passed the man had beaten up his own wife regularly, but the families feared that getting a restraining order would only exacerbate the father’s behaviors, so they’d put up with it.
Two nights ago at around eleven, Chen’s father went to the hotpot shop to grill his wife about keeping another man, and as she’d returned home in the midnight hours, he’d continued cussing at her, chased her upstairs, said he was going to, kick her out, the two brothers tried to stop him, and a little while later, Chen got furious and started speaking on behalf of his own mother, causing his father to get angry, they’d gotten into a verbal altercation.
The father started beating on the son, the two of them beaten each other up, Chen took up the ashtray and started hitting his father’s head with it, then, grabbed the pair of scissors on the tables, and stabbed it into his own father’s neck, severing his carotid, the father started bleeding out, died shortly.
As the police called him into question, Chen didn’t react too emotionally, but as he told the officers of how much his mother had to put up with over the years, and the accident of yesterday, he couldn’t help but cried, and said that he regretted what he’d done, the police charged him with murder.
But, this was, actually, a self-defense, with the son, defending his mother, after all, the man did use his own wife as a punching bag for years on end, and, finally the son had had it, and, in the heat of the moment, he’d, stabbed his father to death, and yeah, this would still be a murder, sure, but, with extringent circumstances.
Life, the Obstacle Course 