https://www.scmp.com/rss/327777/feed Two elderly siblings were killed and two others wounded in a shooting that followed a family meeting at Hong Kong's Quarry Bay Park on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A Hong Kong woman who gunned down two of her relatives and injured two others in a brazen daylight shooting sparked by a family dispute cursed the judge and said she was “so happy” to have committed the crime as she was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. A High Court jury of seven women unanimously found Ada Tsim Sum-kit guilty of two counts of murder for killing her aunt, Jim Siu-fan, and uncle, Chim Chun-ki, at Quarry Bay Park on June 26, 2018. The 47-year-old former bodyguard was also... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3141259/hong-kong-woman-who-gunned-down-relatives-local-park?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3141259/hong-kong-woman-who-gunned-down-relatives-local-park?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:09:07 +0000 A woman shot four of her elderly relatives with a gun in Quarry Bay Park in Hong Kong last month, in an attack that left two dead and two wounded. The news was shocking not only because gun violence of this kind is rare in Hong Kong, a city with very strict laws regulating the possession of firearms, but also because in a Chinese society such as Hong Kong, the family is sacrosanct. Having said that, the Chinese are not exactly strangers to intra-family bloodletting, especially when a great deal... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2154809/deadly-shootings-are-rare-hong-kong-murderous?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2154809/deadly-shootings-are-rare-hong-kong-murderous?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:31:18 +0000 The Hong Kong woman accused of gunning down four elderly relatives, killing two, was caught carrying a set of knives and a large stash of ammunition for her handgun, a court heard on Thursday. Prosecutors said police also found a collection of knives in the backpack Ada Tsim Sum-kit was carrying. Tsim, 44, was at Eastern Court for the first time, to face charges over the shooting in the middle-class neighbourhood of Taikoo Shing on Tuesday. Lawyers told the court on Thursday that police found... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152831/woman-44-charged-murder-after-allegedly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152831/woman-44-charged-murder-after-allegedly?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:45:15 +0000 The woman suspected of gunning down four relatives in a Hong Kong park on Tuesday made an “unusual request” about buying a bulletproof vest, the head of the International Bodyguard Association revealed on Thursday, while also refuting claims she had made about her overseas training. James Shortt, who has been managing the association for nearly three decades, confirmed Ada Tsim Sum-kit – the 44-year-old suspect in a shooting in which two people died and two others were injured – applied for a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152854/hong-kong-shooting-suspect-asked-bodyguard?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152854/hong-kong-shooting-suspect-asked-bodyguard?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Jun 2018 03:30:15 +0000 A second victim in the Quarry Bay shooting died of his wounds on Wednesday afternoon, as more details emerged revealing the dispute between the suspected killer and her elderly relatives centred on how to divide the proceeds of a sale of a HK$8 million (US$1 million) flat. The 62-year-old uncle of suspect Ada Tsim Sum-kit died at 2.41pm at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan. An 80-year-old aunt died on Tuesday evening, three hours after the niece allegedly shot the four... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152713/hong-kong-shooting-suspect-gunned-down?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152713/hong-kong-shooting-suspect-gunned-down?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jun 2018 06:00:15 +0000 The 44-year-old woman who allegedly shot dead an elderly aunt and uncle and wounded two other relatives in a Hong Kong park on Tuesday was described as “weird” by those who saw her around Kin Ming Estate in Tseung Kwan O. One of her neighbours on the 15th floor of Kin Ching House said he often bumped into Ada Tsim Sum-kit at the lift lobby but would avoid her “because she seemed to be neurotic”. The man in his 20s, surnamed Tsang, said she had never spoken to neighbours though some residents... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152634/three-suspected-toy-guns-found-flat-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152634/three-suspected-toy-guns-found-flat-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:15:45 +0000 A row over inheritance turned deadly on Tuesday afternoon when a 44-year-old female bodyguard allegedly shot dead an elderly aunt and wounded three other relatives during a family meeting in a Hong Kong park. Two of those injured were in critical condition on Tuesday night. The woman, Ada Tsim Sum-kit, had arranged to meet her aunts and uncles, all aged between 60 and 80, in Quarry Bay Park to settle a dispute over her grandmother’s inheritance. When the meeting broke up without agreement... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152547/shooting-hong-kong-park-leaves-four-injured?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2152547/shooting-hong-kong-park-leaves-four-injured?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:45:00 +0000