Hong Kong protests: student who suffered fatal injuries in car park fall last year was alone at the time of accident, court hears
- Detective Senior Constable Ngai Kwun-kit says Alex Chow was alone on the third floor of Sheung Tak Estate car park on the night of November 4, 2019
- He also tells Coroner’s Court after studying security camera footage that he did not find anyone pursuing Chow inside the car park that night
A Hong Kong university student who suffered fatal injuries near an anti-government demonstration site last year was alone in a multistorey car park shortly before he fell from one floor there to another, a policeman involved in the investigation told an inquest on Tuesday.
The Coroner’s Court also heard that on the night Alex Chow Tsz-lok was found lying unconscious on the second floor of the car park, two people had attempted to jump over a short concrete wall on the verge of the building’s third floor, but stopped at the last moment.
Investigators played in the court security footage of the Sheung Tak Estate car park in Tseung Kwan O in the small hours of November 4, 2019, showing Chow’s movement inside the building before the fall, as well as the moments when the two unidentified men attempted to jump off the building.
Chow, a 22-year-old student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, died in hospital four days later. It remains unclear how he fell, as no security camera was able to capture his actions right before the mishap.
In the previous proceedings, the court heard firefighters found Chow on a path on the second floor on the northeast end of the car park at 1.06am, five minutes after he was last caught on security cameras.