Police Apply for Arrest Warrant for Siheung Knife Attack Suspect Cha Cheolnam

On May 20, the police applied for an arrest warrant for Cha Cheolnam, a Chinese national of Korean descent, who is the suspect in the knife attack incident in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province.

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The investigation headquarters of the Siheung Police Station under the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency announced that at around 4:20 p.m. on the same day, they had applied for an arrest warrant for Cha Cheolnam on charges including murder and attempted murder.

The police apprehended Cha Cheolnam at around 7:24 p.m. the previous day near Sihwa Lake in Jeongwang-dong, Siheung.

Cha Cheolnam is accused of killing two people, including at his home in Jeongwang-dong, Siheung, and injuring two others, a convenience store owner and the owner of his building, by stabbing them with a weapon.

It has been reported that Cha Cheolnam lent approximately 30 million won to the brothers of a man in his 50s, identified as A, who is also a Chinese national of Korean descent, but when they failed to repay him, he planned the crime in advance, including purchasing a weapon earlier this month.