The late director Kim Chang-min died of assault, half a year later..a belated raid on the perpetrator's home [Star Issue]

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Prosecutors have launched a forced investigation into the perpetrator of the late film director Kim Chang-min's assault death.

According to News 1 on the 15th, the Namyangju branch of the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office sent an investigator to the home of A (30), the perpetrator of Kim's assault death, to conduct a search and seizure.

The prosecution plans to confiscate A's mobile phone and check the situation at the time of the crime and the circumstances of the assault. Based on what conversations Mr. A had with the people involved in the scene on the day of the incident, he is trying to find out the situation at the time.

Director Kim visited a restaurant in Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do with his developmental disability son at 1 a.m. on October 20 last year and was assaulted by A's group sitting next to him.

At that time, director Kim was taken to the hospital in about an hour, and was diagnosed with brain death on November 7 of the same year. Afterwards, he passed away after sharing his organs with four people through organ donation.

The police applied for an arrest warrant by charging only one person A with serious injury and identifying him as a suspect before Kim died, but it was rejected.

In response to the request for a supplementary investigation, the police additionally booked B who was at the scene and applied for an arrest warrant for A and B on charges of injury resulting in death, but the court rejected it, saying, "There is no fear of destroying evidence and fleeing."

The prosecution, which took over the case from the police, has set up a dedicated team consisting of three prosecutors and five investigators and is looking into the case again.

Director Kim Chang-min was born in 1985 and entered the film industry in 2013 as a prop manager for the movie "The Suspect." Since then, he has participated in a number of films such as "That's My World," "The Drug King," "The Witch" and "The Firefighter" in 2024.

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