Gwangju police on Tuesday disclosed the personal information of Jang Yoon-gi, 23, who killed a female high school student he had never met on a downtown street in Gwangju and attacked a male high school student with a weapon, and referred him to the prosecution.
The Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency posted a photograph and date of birth of Jang, who has been arrested on charges including murder and attempted murder, on its website starting at 7 a.m. that day.
The released photograph is a mugshot, an image taken by investigative authorities at the time of arrest to record the suspect's appearance.
Police decided to disclose his personal information on the 8th, but because Jang did not consent, they waited five days before posting it.
Jang is accused of killing a 17-year-old second-year high school girl on a sparsely populated pedestrian path in Wolgye-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju at around 12:11 a.m. on the 5th, and of attacking another 17-year-old male high school student from a different school with a weapon.
Jang is the first suspect in a violent crime in Gwangju to have his personal information disclosed.
Born in 2002, he is 23 years old. He was unemployed at the time of his arrest.
The investigation found that Jang had initially targeted a woman who had reported him as a "stalker," but instead vented his anger on innocent vulnerable victims.
Jang was arrested on an emergency basis and taken into custody on charges of killing 17-year-old student A on a sparsely populated pedestrian path in Wolgye-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju at around 12:11 a.m. on the 5th, and attacking another 17-year-old high school student B with a weapon.
Police are also paying attention to the fact that Jang had been reported for stalking and accused of sexual offenses by a foreign woman who had been his part-time coworker before the crime, and are reviewing the possibility of applying charges of preparation for murder.
