The Korean National Police Agency headquarters in Seoul. Photo by Asia Today
July 14 (Asia Today) -- Alert investigators at a police station in southeastern South Korea played a decisive role in uncovering an additional alleged crime and murder plan involving Jang Yun-gi, the defendant in the killing of a high school student in Gwangju.
The Chilgok Police Station was investigating a rape complaint filed by a Vietnamese woman who did not know the alleged attacker's identity. Officers saw news coverage of the Gwangju killing the following day and suspected that the two cases might involve the same person.
The officers contacted the Gwangsan Police Station in Gwangju, connecting cases under separate police jurisdictions through their own judgment rather than an internal information-sharing system, police records showed.
A Vietnamese woman in her 20s filed a rape complaint with the Chilgok Police Station on May 4. She could not identify the suspect by name when she submitted the complaint.
