A twisted Texas man allegedly gunned down two people and injured three others in a botched murder-suicide plot against his business partners, court documents revealed.
Seung Han Ho, 69, opened fire at the K-Towne strip mall in Carrollton in a purported pre-meditated attack against the shopping center’s owners and their employees, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox 4.
Ho first confronted four of the victims — Sung Rae Cho, Olivia Kim, Yo Sung Kim and Young Yoo — at the mall. He told them that he didn’t have their rent, but did have a pistol, the affidavit said.
The jilted entrepreneur was on the hook for a sushi restaurant at the plaza, the owner of the mall, Yoo, and Edward Schleigh, a local real estate agent, “convinced” him to purchase last summer for upwards of $75,000, court documents said.
The two also persuaded him to invest in a separate property in Georgia.
When the deals “eventually fell through,” Ho demanded his money back — but he was rebuffed. Kim also separately talked Yoo into hiking the rent for the sushi spot an additional $2,000, according to the affidavit.
An enraged Ho collected the four victims’ cellphones and opened fire after a heated, minutes-long discussion, as alleged in the affidavit.
He fatally shot Cho while he was running towards an exit. He also shot Yoo and the Kims, the affidavit said — although they are all expected to survive the shootings.
From there, Ho set his sights on Schleigh, who lived at an apartment complex four miles away from the mall.
Ho allegedly told detectives he knew Schleigh left his apartment unlocked, so he stormed in and fatally shot the real estate agent twice, the affidavit stated.
He then drove to an H-Mart, a Korean grocery store, to say goodbye to his friends — as he planned to take his own life, he said.
But Ho was caught by cops across the street from the H-Mart after a brief foot chase.
He was charged with two counts of capital murder and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police announced Wednesday.
Capital murder is punishable by death in Texas.
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