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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

‘Attack on our identity’: Taiwanese Americans come together after tragic California shooting

Two men, one wearing a medical mask, the other holding a pair of glasses, embrace in front of a church service.
Billy Chang, right, the Taiwanese pastor who survived the 15 May shooting at Geneva Presbyterian church, is comforted by Jason Aguilar, a senior pastor at Arise church in Irvine, California. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

When Ho Chie Tsai learned that a gunman had targeted the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian church in southern California, he knew it was only a matter of time before the effects of the tragedy reached him.

The Taiwanese American community is close-knit and, despite living in the San Francisco Bay Area, the pediatrician soon learned of friends and family who had connections to the church where a man opened fire on elderly worshipers, injuring five people and killing one before parishioners overtook him.

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