Family property dispute triggered fatal shooting in public park, Hong Kong court hears
- Ada Tsim is accused of shooting four relatives amid a fight over a decision to place her mother in a home for the elderly
- Tsim allegedly also quarrelled with her relatives over a property left behind by her grandmother at Nam Fung Sun Chuen in Quarry Bay
A daughter’s grudge against her relatives over their treatment of her ailing mother and their handling of a family property dispute prompted her to shoot her uncle and aunt dead with a handgun in a public park three years ago, a Hong Kong court heard on Wednesday.
Ada Tsim Sum-kit shot Jim Siu-fan, 80, and Chim Chun-ki, 62, in the head from a short distance in Quarry Bay Park on June 26, 2018, a prosecutor told a jury on the first day of the trial.
Another uncle, Jim Chin-kui, and aunt, Jim Siu-wai, were also caught up in the fatal shooting, with a bullet hitting the former in the arm and grazing the latter on her shoulder, senior assistant director of public prosecutions Derek Lai Kim-wah said.
“She fired four shots at a close distance. Each of the shots hit the two uncles and two aunts,” the prosecutor said, adding that police later found five remaining bullets in her 25 calibre weapon. They also found 41 additional rounds of ammunition on her.
But the prosecutors stopped short of shedding light on how Tsim obtained the firearm and ammunition.
