Police say a husband’s anger over business dealings led to two fatal shooting scenes.
CARROLLTON, Texas — A weekday morning at a Korean business plaza turned into a two-scene homicide investigation after gunfire killed two men, wounded three people and led police to charge a husband and wife.
The violence began in a public place that is normally defined by markets, restaurants and regular customers. K Towne Plaza, in the 4000 block of State Highway 121, sits in a busy part of Carrollton’s Korean business community. Police said the attack was targeted, not random, but the first scene still brought a heavy emergency response to a commercial area where people had started an ordinary Tuesday.
Officers responded shortly before 10 a.m. May 5 and found four people with gunshot wounds at Gwangjang Korean Market. Sung Rae Cho died from his injuries. Three others survived and were taken for treatment. Police soon received a second report from an apartment in the 2700 block of Denton Road, where Edward Schleigh was found dead. The scenes were linked within the same investigation. By the end of the day, police had arrested Seung Ho Han, a 69-year-old sushi restaurant owner, and said he had admitted shooting all five victims.
The first public explanation focused on business. Police said Han knew the victims and described anger over financial disagreements. Investigators later said he told them he had given Schleigh $70,000 and another person $5,000 for a property deal in Georgia. He believed the deal had failed and that he was losing his money. He was also upset about a rent increase at his restaurant, which was located in the same plaza where the first shooting happened. Officials have not said the financial claims were verified, only that they were part of the motive Han gave detectives.
The case widened when police arrested Ae Son Han, Seung Ho Han’s 67-year-old wife, in Minnesota. Detectives said she had been present during the shootings and helped her husband carry out the second killing. The arrest followed additional interviews and a review of digital evidence. Police said dashcam video captured Seung Ho Han asking his wife to call Schleigh to check whether he was home before the second shooting. That alleged call became the clearest public detail about why police believe she did more than witness the events.
The affidavit also describes a moment inside the market that has become central to the public account of the case. A wounded woman told police she asked Ae Son Han to call 911 after she had been shot. Police said Han responded, “Why aren’t you dead yet?” and told the woman she should have been the first person killed. Investigators said Han then left the market. The statement has not been tested in court, but it gives prosecutors a possible argument about her state of mind after the first shooting and before the trip to the second scene.
Police said the couple drove from the market to the apartment where Schleigh was killed about an hour after the first police response. Afterward, investigators said, they went through a McDonald’s drive-thru and ordered drinks. The detail added a quiet, unsettling entry to the timeline. Seung Ho Han was later arrested after a short foot chase near a grocery store. Police said he had gone to the area to tell friends goodbye and had planned to take his own life. Officers took him into custody before that happened, according to accounts of the investigation.
Seung Ho Han is charged with two counts of capital murder and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Ae Son Han is charged with murder. The charges reflect police claims that he was the shooter and that she helped in the second homicide. Authorities have not publicly said she fired a weapon. They have not released every interview, video or phone record reviewed by detectives. They have said the case is built on witness accounts, follow-up interviews and several forms of digital evidence that helped track the couple’s movements.
For the businesses around the plaza, the case brought unwanted attention to an area known more for food, shopping and Korean community life than violent crime. Carrollton is a Dallas suburb with a visible Korean American business presence, and the plaza where the first shooting happened is one of several commercial centers serving that community. Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said the shootings were not random, a key message as officers worked to secure the scene and explain why two locations were involved. The business connection made the case narrower, but not less alarming.
The surviving victims remain part of the investigation, though police have released limited public details about their recovery. Their statements may be important in both cases, especially the account from the woman who said she asked Ae Son Han for help. Prosecutors also may rely on the alleged confession by Seung Ho Han, business records tied to the Georgia property deal and rent dispute, and digital evidence showing what happened between the first and second shootings. Defense responses to the allegations had not been fully detailed in the reports reviewed.
The next milestone is Ae Son Han’s return to Texas for court proceedings. Seung Ho Han’s capital murder case also continues, with the deaths of Cho and Schleigh and the injuries to three survivors forming the core of the prosecution’s case.
Author note: Last updated June 19, 2026.