Korean family of Texas gun victim
It’s a pity that the hidden story is known
“The child lived with the mother in her arms”
The shopping center I visited to exchange a birthday present for my eldest child, who was six years old, has become the last outing for the family. A six-year-old boy whose mother had been shot and protected in her arms until the end was the only survivor of her family.
On the 8th (local time), a fundraising and support website, GoFundMe, opened a fundraising page to help the families of Kyu-seong Cho (38) and Shin-young Kang (36), who were victims of the mass shooting. They were killed on the 6th by an extremist gunman in a mall in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.
The creator of the fundraising page said, “Last Saturday, Kyu (Cho), Cindy (Kang), William (eldest son), and James (younger son) visited Allen Outlet Mall.” Zero, they went there (outlet) to exchange the clothes William got for his birthday for a different size,” he explained. “That afternoon, which should have been full of light, love and blessings, ended in an instant with a massacre that left 8 victims,” he said. William, the only survivor, was treated in an intensive care unit with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and was transferred to a general ward, but is said to be in severe psychological shock. After the GoFundMe page was opened, anonymous and named donations continued.
Based on eyewitness testimony, local residents speculate that the child was able to survive thanks to Kang holding his eldest son in his arms and wrapping him until he died. The previous day, CNN and other media reported that shortly after the incident, resident Steven Spain Hoyer took a 4-5 year old boy out of the arms of a woman who had fallen to the ground and died. Spain Heuer said, “When the mother turned around, the child came out.” “When I asked, ‘Are you okay?’, the child, covered in blood from head to toe, replied, ‘My mother is hurt.'”
Cho, a lawyer, and Kang, a dentist, are known as second-generation Koreans who immigrated to the United States with their parents when they were young. They not only built successful careers, but also actively participated in volunteer activities in local Korean churches and built a good reputation around them. Mr. Cho introduced himself on the lawyer’s office website, saying, “As an immigrant born in Korea and raised in Dallas, I have deep pride, respect, and gratitude for the ‘American Dream’.”
The Korean Society of Dallas released a statement of condolence on the same day and said, “The news of the death of a beautiful Korean family is very sad and it is a great sadness for all of us.” ” he asked.
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