The perp had a history of mental illness, and his condition was left untreated, and it’d, resorted, to, MURDER! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The sixty-two-year-old woman from Taiping District in Taichung was found with multiple puncture wounds on the back of her neck yesterday, lying DEAD, in a pool of blood inside her own living room, rigor had already set in, and the medical examiner believed that she’d been dead for at least a day, while the son, Chen who lived with her locked himself inside the room, and sat dumbfounded in the room. The police broke down the door, took Chen into the station, at the preliminary evaluations, they’d ruled out breaking and entering, the case is being prosecuted as murder of one’s own direct kin, while the motives of Chen’s murdering his own mother is still pending investigation.
Based off of understanding, as Chen (age 40) was taken into the substation, he was in a daze, psychologically unstable, wasn’t making any sense in his speech, and the testimonies of what had happened came at a very slow pace, Chen is suspected of having schizophrenia, it’s estimated that he will be sent to the D.A.’s Office, and, the district attorney will have a psych evaluation on him.
The neighbors told, that the deceased and Chen lived together in the same building, they’re rarely seen the deceased outside, they’d seen the son wandered around and about the neighborhood areas, but he’d not interacted with them; what was worth noting was Chen had started screaming and yelling in the community, and there were calls made about him obstructing the peace of the neighbors’ lives.
Based off of understanding, the daughter of the deceased lives in Taipei, she’d called home yesterday, but couldn’t reach her, worried that her younger brother was having emotional problems, asked the security personnel of the community to look in.
The personnel used the intercom, but no response, and rang the doorbell upstairs, nothing, as the personnel told the daughter, they’d called the locksmith, and found the woman lying in a pool of blood, they’d immediately called the fire department to rescue her, by the time the police and paramedics arrived, they’d found that there were multiple knife wounds on the back of her neck, she’d been dead already.
And so, this is yet, another tragedy that could’ve been, easily avoided, had this man gotten institutionalized, but he wasn’t, and, this still just goes to show, how the security nets weren’t, set up completely, nor correctly here. Because this man wasn’t medicated, and had a history of mental illness, and he’d murdered his own mother.