The congregation subdued the gunman and held him until the police came to the story below. One brave man died several people were shot. Exclusive images obtained by ABC7 show the moment David Chou was subdued by heroic congregants inside the Geneva Presbyterian Church on El Toro Road in Laguna Woods.
A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before being stopped and hog-tied by parishioners in what a sheriff’s office called an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.”
Four of the five people wounded suffered critical gunshot injuries during the violence at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials said.
Between 30 and 40 members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church were gathered for lunch after a morning church service at Geneva when gunfire erupted shortly before 1:30 p.m., officials said. When deputies arrived, parishioners had the gunman hog-tied and in custody.
John Cheng was 52. In an unearthed YouTube video from 2012 posted by South Coast Medical Group, Cheng says he came from a family of physicians.
Authorities Monday have identified the man killed when a gunman opened fire Sunday inside an Orange County church as John Cheng, a 52-year-old physician. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
Cheng was shot and killed in the attack early Sunday afternoon at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods. Five people were injured in the shooting, four of them critically.
The five wounded victims were identified only as four men, ages 66, 92, 82, and 75, and an 86-year-old woman.
