News Story #2: Cathedral Robbery

Two detoured foreign tourists were robbed at gunpoint yesterday at Saint Mary’s Cathedral.

WeiMing Chen, 28, and his wife, Li Lu, 30, were robbed of belongings: Visa card, camera, around $100 dollars, passports and airline tickets, after an armed assailant allegedly waved a pistol and demanded their money at the cathedral’s lower parking lot.

The assailant who is described to be 18-years old is wearing a black jacket and cap approached Chen after he and his wife split from their tourist in the morning and taking pictures at cathedral, Chen said.

He said the suspect took off after the confrontation and police were looking for him.

It is unknown if Chen and his wife made their 1 p.m. flight back to Taipei with their whole tour group of roughly 30 employees at a Taiwan airline.