Choi Mo (30), who is suspected of committing sexual assault and murder on Dulle-gil Park in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, was found to have searched for the keyword ‘rape’ on an Internet portal before committing the crime. It can be seen as a circumstance that supports the fact that Choi’s crime was a premeditated crime. Police received data from news agencies and portal sites and started tracking down Choi, who denies that the crime was planned.
According to the Kukmin Ilbo coverage on the 21st, the Seoul Gwanak메이저놀이터 Police Station found out that Mr. Choi searched many articles related to rape crimes on his mobile phone before the crime. The police executed a search and seizure warrant against Mr. Choi’s cell phone carrier and portal site on the same day, and are investigating specific call details and internet search records. Choi is also known to have purchased the knuckle of the metal weapon used in the crime four months in advance.
According to the circumstances revealed by the police investigation, Choi is presumed to be close to a ‘reclusive loner’. He lived with his parents in a villa in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, and did not come out of the house. It is known that he only went to a nearby PC room when he went out . A resident living in the villa said, “I didn’t know who it was even when I saw the photo on the news. He never met,” he said. A police official explained, “There was no contact at all, even with his friends.” It is known that Mr. Choi dropped out of university, and he said several times that he mentioned a specific university and said, ‘I quit while attending that school’.
Because of this, the police are not able to find out how Mr. Choi decided and prepared the crime and whether the murder was intentional or not .We plan to identify it through search history analysis, etc. Previously, the fact that Chosun (33), a suspect in the ‘Sillim Station weapon riot’ case, searched the Hong Kong Plaza Hotel weapon riot case on the portal site before the crime was used as circumstantial evidence to reinforce the plannedness of the crime. A police official said, “The digital forensics on Mr. Choi’s cell phone and laptop have been completed and the data are being analyzed.”
The police also presented a warrant to the National Health Insurance Corporation and are checking whether Choi has received treatment for mental illness in the past. Choi’s family stated in a police investigation that he had been diagnosed with depression, but that he had not received treatment. At the beginning of the investigation, Mr. Choi was gibberish, but now it is said that he is being investigated by the police with a relatively consistent statement.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency plans to hold a personal disclosure committee on the 23rd to discuss whether to disclose Choi’s real name, face, and age.