Authorities in Carrollton, Texas, say a 69-year-old man gunned down two people and injured three others across two locations on May 5, 2026, in what investigators describe as a calculated attack stemming from a business dispute gone wrong.
Seung Ho Han faces capital murder of multiple persons and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after the dual shootings unfolded in the Dallas suburb’s Koreatown district. The victims killed were identified as Sung Rae Cho, 63, of Denton County, and Edward Schleigh. Three survivors — Olivia Kim, Yo Sung Kim, and Young Yoo — sustained gunshot wounds but are expected to recover.
Court documents show Han told detectives he was angry over a $75,000 business deal involving his sushi restaurant and a Georgia property investment that went sour. The wounded survivors told investigators they had gathered at the strip mall with Cho for a meeting when Han arrived and opened fire.
A Targeted Attack, Not Random Violence
Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo stressed the shootings were not random acts of violence but deliberate attacks on people Han knew through business.
“It was a known business relationship. We’re still trying to work to identify what caused his actions,” Arredondo said.
Two Crime Scenes, Four Miles Apart
The violence began just before 10 a.m. at K Towne Plaza, a shopping center in Carrollton’s Koreatown neighborhood roughly 20 miles north of Dallas. First responders discovered three adults suffering from gunshot wounds and one person already dead at the retail hub.
While officers worked that scene, police received another emergency call from an apartment complex about four miles away. There, they found a dead man inside one of the units. Detectives determined both crime scenes were connected and that Han was responsible for both attacks.
Han was taken into custody a short time later at H Mart on Old Denton Road in Carrollton after a brief foot chase. Court documents revealed that after the shootings, Han drove to H Mart to say goodbye to friends at the fish market, telling police he had planned to take his own life before officers apprehended him.
Officers later converged on a nearby apartment complex where Han had lived recently. Neighbors who spoke with investigators said they did not recognize his name.
Heavy Federal Presence at the Scene
The response included agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and at least one other federal agency, with FBI agents seen collecting evidence in the parking lot throughout the afternoon. Video circulating online showed Carrollton officers moving cautiously past storefronts at K Towne Plaza with their weapons drawn in the chaotic minutes after the first shooting.
The federal involvement underscored the scale of the response, even as police described the case as a personal dispute rather than an act of mass terror. Detectives spent hours canvassing the shopping plaza, interviewing witnesses, and reviewing surveillance footage to piece together the sequence of events between the two shooting locations.
Investigation Continues Into Business Dispute
Arredondo emphasized that while investigators have established that the encounters at the plaza and the apartment complex were connected, many questions remain about why tensions escalated so violently on the morning of May 5. Police are still working to determine the exact nature of the meeting that preceded the shootings.
The case adds Carrollton to a string of recent shopping center shootings across the country, though officials in Carrollton stressed that this incident appears to have been driven by a personal grievance rather than indiscriminate violence directed at the public.
Han remained in custody on the evening of May 5 as detectives continued their interviews and prepared to formally present charges.
Shock Ripples Through Koreatown
The daytime gunfire sent shockwaves through Carrollton’s tight-knit Korean American community, where K Towne Plaza serves as a central gathering place. More than 4,000 of the city’s residents are of Korean descent, making it the largest Korean community in the southern United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
“We’re shocked,” said John Jun, who is active in the Korean American community. “We’re not immune to something like this happening, but we are very generally a peaceful community that works hard.”
Korean entrepreneurs have transformed the neighborhood over the past 20 years through significant investment. The area centers around H Mart, the well-known Asian supermarket chain, and features dozens of restaurants serving Korean fried chicken and shaved ice desserts known as bingsu. The city is also home to multiple Korean churches, including Baptist and Presbyterian congregations that draw worshippers from across the metro area. Several merchants in the plaza closed their doors for the remainder of the day as the investigation unfolded.
For now, residents of Carrollton’s Koreatown were left to grapple with an unsettling reality — that a violent dispute, born from the world of business, had spilled out into the streets of a community known for its quiet diligence and growing prosperity.