Hong Kong shooting: one killed, three wounded as female bodyguard allegedly guns down relatives in inheritance feud

A row over inheritance turned deadly on Tuesday afternoon when a 44-year-old female bodyguard allegedly shot dead an elderly aunt and wounded three other relatives during a family meeting in a Hong Kong park.

Two of those injured were in critical condition on Tuesday night.

The woman, Ada Tsim Sum-kit, had arranged to meet her aunts and uncles, all aged between 60 and 80, in Quarry Bay Park to settle a dispute over her grandmother’s inheritance.

When the meeting broke up without agreement shortly before 3pm, the woman is said to have pulled out a semi-automatic Beretta 950 handgun and gunned down the siblings at close range, before calmly walking away.

Tsim allegedly shot her 80-year-old aunt in the front of the head and her 62-year-old uncle in the back of the head. Both were rushed to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan, where the aunt died at 6.35pm. The 62-year-old uncle remained in critical condition on Wednesday.

The two other victims, a 72-year-old uncle and a 60-year-old aunt, were shot in the shoulder and hand and taken to hospital, with the uncle’s condition improving from critical to serious, while the aunt remained stable, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.