South Korea man shoots son to death after he allegedly stopped receiving money from family business
A man from South Korea was accused of shooting his son to death as he had "felt betrayed" after he allegedly stopped receiving money from the family business.
Multiple outlets reported that the fatal shooting, using a homemade gun, happened on July 20 at 8:31 p.m. at the home of the suspect during a birthday celebration his son had reportedly organized for him.
The celebration's guests included his wife, their two children, and other family members.
The man, 62, said he had been getting about three million won (P124,000) monthly from their business, which appears to be a skincare franchise founded by his former wife.
He was registered as an employee and got payments through salaries, which stopped “at some point last year."
The man, who was reportedly unemployed for the last three or four years, had been using a one-time payout from his national pension to cover his expenses.
He had been living in his former wife's top-floor penthouse apartment in Incheon.
The man became resentful toward his son when the child "turned his back" on him. The suspect also called himself “a good person who lived a decent life in the past."
According to the Incheon Metropolitan Police Department, there's no definitive conclusion yet on the suspect's motives, though the statements were included in the profiling report.
On July 21, authorities searched the man's residence and found 15 containers filled with flammable liquids like plastic bottles with thinner and household chemicals, as well as ignition devices. They said a timer had been set to trigger a fire during noontime.
The following day, the family accused him of also targeting his daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, and other people in the celebration.
They dismissed the man's initial claim regarding a longstanding family conflict and insisted that his actions had "no mitigating motive."
