High Schoolers Mock Man After Trespassing to Smoke; Son Brandishes Weapon in Retaliation

A family is facing criminal charges after a father attempted to reprimand high school students smoking in a residential area, only to be met with mockery, leading his son to brandish a weapon.
According to the Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station on Wednesday (June 17), the incident occurred in a residential neighborhood in Sinchang-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, on June 10.
A group of high school students, carrying backpacks, habitually climbed over the wall of a house belonging to a man identified as A and smoked in a corner of the property, with the smoke drifting directly into the home.
Unable to endure it any longer, A reprimanded them, telling them, "Do not climb over the wall" and "Do not smoke here," but the students responded with mockery and severe verbal abuse.
Although A attempted to chase them away with a cleaning mop, the students ran around the neighborhood, pretending to avoid the confrontation while continuing to taunt him.
A's two sons, who have intellectual disabilities and were watching the situation from inside the house, were unable to contain their anger.
Eventually, the sons emerged from the house with a weapon and threatened the students.
The commotion ended when A calmed his sons down and took the weapon away, and police arrived following a report from a neighbor.
However, because they used a weapon to make threats, A and his sons now face potential punishment.
The area where the incident occurred is known to be a place where residents have frequently complained about teenagers habitually smoking, causing noise, and trespassing over walls.
The Gwangsan Police Station has referred the father, A, and his two sons to the prosecution without detention on charges of special intimidation.
A police official stated, "It was determined to be an impulsive incident that occurred while frustrations over noise and smoking in the residential area had been building up," adding, "We referred them to the prosecution without detention, taking into account that the students did not wish for them to be punished."
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