"Considered Daycare Centers, Too"... Shocking Statement by 'Knife Rampage' Suspect Choi Choong-rak

[Anchor]

It has been revealed that Choi Choong-rak, the suspect in the Incheon knife rampage, even considered a daycare center as a target for his crime. This has added shock and outrage as he intended to target young children.

Reporter Lee Se-hyeon has the details.

[Reporter]

Following police officers carrying blue search-and-seizure boxes, Choi Choong-rak emerges with his face covered by a hat and a mask.

[(Did you plan the crime in advance?) ...... (Do you have anything else to say to the victims?) ......]

The search and seizure of Choi's residence lasted for about an hour and a half starting at 8:00 AM.

Choi is known to have packed several weapons from his home into a backpack on the morning of the day of the knife attack.

Having secured Choi's memo pads and other items through the search and seizure, the police plan to focus on proving his exact motive and the circumstances indicating premeditation.

It was also confirmed that during police questioning, Choi stated, "I thought about targeting a daycare center on the day of the crime, but decided against it because it felt like going too far."

While he did not mention a specific daycare center, police are paying close attention to the fact that he considered a place populated solely by women and children with no adult males as a target.

This is because it strongly suggests he intended to inflict greater casualties by targeting people who would find it difficult to resist.

Choi did not answer why he chose the large multi-use commercial complex where the knife rampage took place as the crime scene.

[Yesterday, Incheon District Court : (Why did you commit the crime at that shopping complex?) ......]

The police plan to re-question Choi as soon as they finish analyzing the items seized from the search.

(Video by Joo Yong-jin | Video Editing by So Ji-hye)
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