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Tuesday, March 8, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Woman allegedly spurned gunman
Special to the KANSAN Cheun-phon Ji, shown with attorney Irvin Shaw, was arraigned yesterday on murder and attempted murder charges.
The Associated Press
EMPORIA — A man who drove up to a Baptist church and then allegedly opened fire on worshippers had been spurned by a woman who used to belong to the congregation, a church member said yesterday.
church member. One person was killed and four were wounded in the Sunday morning shooting spree at Calvary Baptist Church. Parishioners wrestled the gunman to the ground after a church trustee chased him outside and struck him with a hymnal.
Police identified the man as Cheun-phon Ji, 29, a Taiwan native, who earned a master's degree in business administration from Emporia State University in December 1984. He returned to this eastern Kansas community of 26,000, about 110 miles southwest of Kansas City, just minutes before the assault, Police Chief Larry Blomenkamp said.
Ji was charged yesterday with one count of first-degree murder. He also was charged with six counts of
attempted first-degree murder involving the four people who were wounded and two who were shot at.
Magistrate Judge Francis Towle set bond at $1 million. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for March 31.
hearing test Investigators yesterday sought people who knew Ji when he lived in Emporia, trying to find a motive.
Emperor Renita Rothe, 34, a member of the congregation, said Ji had attended Bible classes in her home in 1983 or 1984 with a woman he hoped to marry.
"She just wanted to share the Lord with him," she said. "But we knew he was different. He had a different kind of religion, you know, Buddha and all that."
Rothe said Ji attended only two classes, and rarely spoke during them. When the woman refused his proposal to marry him and to return to Taiwan to care for his parents, he became bitter. He also was upset when she married someone else two years ago.
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