{"id":5431,"date":"2025-05-16T07:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:14:03","slug":"a-man-has-been-killed-in-an-early-morning-shooting-at-a-bar-in-pingtung-city-taiwan-in-clashes-over-a-suspected-debt-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5431","title":{"rendered":"A man has been killed in an early-morning shooting at a bar in Pingtung City, Taiwan, in clashes over a suspected debt dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shots were fired at a bar in Pingtung City, Pingtung County, at around 3 am on May 16, the central news agency reported. Police initial investigation, the two sides suspected of 200,000 Taiwan dollars (about 47,900 yuan) debt dispute, failed to negotiate a conflict, resulting in a gunshot death. The police have a suspect in their sights and are looking for him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5432 aligncenter\" title=\"b84a0c0b4863b2f5dc123c14d8d8f2bcu1\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b84a0c0b4863b2f5dc123c14d8d8f2bcu1.png\" alt=\"b84a0c0b4863b2f5dc123c14d8d8f2bcu1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b84a0c0b4863b2f5dc123c14d8d8f2bcu1.png 800w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b84a0c0b4863b2f5dc123c14d8d8f2bcu1-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b84a0c0b4863b2f5dc123c14d8d8f2bcu1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nA man was killed in a shooting at a bar in Pingtung City at around 3 am Sunday. Photo: United News Network of Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Huang Feiwen, deputy director of the Pingtung County Police Pingdong branch, told the media on the 16th that at around 3 am today, he was informed of a shooting incident on the second floor of a bar in Pingtung City, the victim was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. Preliminary investigation, the two sides suspected a dispute over T $200,000 debt, because negotiations failed to lead to conflict, and then the shooting incident.<\/p>\n<p>Pingtung County Police said a task force had been formed to investigate and, after reviewing surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses, had identified a man as a major suspect and was pursuing him vigorously. The forensic team has also been informed to conduct on-site investigation and continue to clarify the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots were fired at a bar in Pingtung City, Pingtung County, at around 3 am on May 16, the central news agency reported. Police initial investigation, the two sides suspected&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,265],"tags":[2378,2376,356,2377,1046],"views":353,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}