Police investigating the Causeway Bay attack where a Hong Kong police officer was stabbed found suicide notes left by the man involved, according to reports today.
It was said that the assailant, 50-year-old Leung Kin-fai, left suicide notes in his San Po Kong home claiming he would end his life after killing police officers, also settling his affairs with his parents.
Reports suggested that Leung was not an active social media user but had been keeping close track of social movements. He had no prior criminal record.
Pamphlets about the city’s social movements were also found in his home.
Meanwhile, the police officer who was stabbed in the back has been moved from critical to serious condition, officials said this noon.
The officer was attacked outside the Sogo department store in the busy Causeway Bay shopping district where police were standing guard to prevent demonstrations.
Hong Kong's hospital authority on Friday confirmed the improvement in the condition of officer, who has not been identified apart from that he was a 28-year-old member of the elite Police Tactical Unit.
Police said the suspect – a 50-year-old man whom they did not identify – subsequently stabbed himself and was later pronounced dead after he was taken to Ruttonjee Hospital.
Authorities were still looking into the motivation behind Thursday night's attack, which followed annual commemorations of Hong Kong’s handover from British to Chinese control in 1997, as well as the centenary of the founding of China’s ruling Communist Party. The attack comes amid a sweeping crackdown on political dissent.
