The shooting at a Taiwanese church in Southern California caused 1 death and 5 injuries. Professional American football NFL player Johnny Stanton said that the deceased was his doctor, John Cheng, and praised him as a hero. Brave against the gunmen.
NFL Cleveland Browns guard Stanton wrote on social media: “I just found out that the person who was killed in the Laguna Woods shooting yesterday was my attending physician, Dazhi Cheng. Absolute hero, he attacked the gunman to help save a lot of people in the church, I just wanted to let everyone know his name and we will miss him.”
Baylor University in Texas also tweeted: “Dr. Tat Chi Cheng, who died yesterday, bravely confronted a gunman at an Orange County church, effectively blocking bullets for the church members. He is also an alumnus and graduated in 1991. Class. Please join us in prayer for those who know and love him.”
Agence France-Presse reported that Dr. Zheng tried to subdue the gunman and let others tie him up and wait for the police to arrive. Photos obtained exclusively by ABC’s ABC7 show a group of heroic congregants at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods working together to pin the gunman to the ground.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said: “If it wasn’t for Dr. Cheng’s actions, there would undoubtedly be more victims. Unfortunately, Dr. Cheng was shot after dealing with the suspect and was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Huang Minjing, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, told reporters today that Zheng Dazhi was a specialist in sports medicine. He was killed in the shooting in the spirit of a doctor saving people and the world. He was praised by US law enforcement officials in today’s public press conference. , “his heroic act saved many lives”.
Zheng Dazhi was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was one year old. His father, who was also a doctor, passed away about 3 months ago. The family is still recovering from the pain of the death of a loved one. Yesterday, Zheng Dazhi accompanied his mother to a church gathering, but this disaster happened. He left behind a wife and a pair of children.
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