What We Know About the California Church Shooter

As U.S. authorities searched for a motive in the mass shooting at a California church that killed one and injured five others, one question has consumed Chinese and Taiwanese communities worldwide: Is David Chou, the 68-year-old suspected shooter, Chinese or Taiwanese?

Don Barnes, an Orange County sheriff, identified Chou as an immigrant from China in a press conference on Monday. He said the Sunday attack at a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods was possibly motivated by his political hatred of Taiwan, a self-rule democracy that Beijing claims as its own...