Chen Yi-hsiung
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Chen Yi-hsiung, (???-March 29, 2004) is the primary suspect in the assassination attempt of Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu one day prior to the 2004 election.
Chen Yi-hsiung was an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes, the suspect was found drowned off of Tainan, a southern city Taiwan, 10 days after the attack. [1]
[edit] Finding Chen Yi-hsiung
Working off of clues from a video that was shot near the attack, authorities spent months tracing the bullets used in the assassination attempt to an illegal gun maker. After questioning the individual, investigators were able to follow the purchase to Chen Yi-hsiung.
[edit] Controversy
While the case has officially been closed, with the main suspect Chen Yi-hsiung dead police are having a hard time proving their theory. While Chen Yi-hsiung's death was officially ruled a suicide, with both suicide notes (supposedly burned by his family) and a video of his wife apologizing for her husbands crime backing up this theory, opponents of President Chen disagree with this conclusion. President Chen's foes claim that the assassination attempt was planned in order to win sympathy votes, which led to President Chen winning the election by just over 29,500 votes bare hours after the attempted assassination.
One theory, supported by Vice President Lu herself, is that there may have been two shooters. Whatever the case, the common sentiment is that few people, only 21% in a pool by the China Times Newspaper, believe that Chen Yi-hsiung was the sole assailant and engineer of the attack
