"Considered Daycare Too"... Shocking Statement by Knife Attacker Choi Choong-rak

[Anchor]

It has been revealed that Choi Choong-rak, the suspect in the Incheon knife-wielding attack, even considered a daycare center as a target for his crime. This has added shock and outrage, given that young children were targeted.

Here is a report by reporter Lee Se-hyeon.

[Reporter]

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

[(Did you plan the crime in advance?) ...... (Do you have anything more 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 multiple 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 the exact motive for the crime and 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."

Although he did not mention a specific daycare center, the police are focusing on the fact that he considered places with only women and children and no adult males as targets for the crime.

This is because it is highly likely that he intended to inflict greater casualties by choosing targets who could not easily resist.

Choi did not answer why he chose the large multi-complex commercial building where the knife attack took place as the location for his crime.

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

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

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