The victim was identified as Lu Shao-chen, 32, who had been closely monitored by the Criminal Investigation Bureau and the Tatung District Police Precinct in Taipei as a drug trafficker. The seven suspects included Lan Kuo-liang 42, Hu Hu-long (a woman), Chen Ping-nan, 21, Yen Chia-hao, Huang Shih-hsiang, and another two women surnamed Yeh and Chen.

After conducting initial investigations, the police found that Lu allegedly sold “rock candy” as “amphetamine” to Lan and other suspects for NT$260,000 in mid-March at a bowling alley in Chungho City of Taipei County. After discovering the fraud, the suspects tried to lure Lu out to meet them. One of them, Hu Hu-long successfully called Lu to come out to meet a prospective drug buyer at a coffee shop near the Taipei Bridge, and then sent messages to Lan and other accomplices via mobile phones.

When Lu showed up at the coffee shop, he was soon driven by the suspects to his own residence in Tucheng City, Taipei County, and was assaulted and stabbed with a knife. After Lu died from his wounds, the criminals dropped his body at the main gate of the National Taipei University in Sanhia Township.

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