Investigators say digital evidence showed Ae Son Han helped before the second fatal shooting.
CARROLLTON, Texas — Detectives used interviews, dashcam video and other digital evidence to charge a 67-year-old woman with murder after her husband allegedly killed two men and wounded three people in Carrollton.
Ae Son Han’s arrest came after police first charged her husband, Seung Ho Han, in the May 5 shootings. Authorities said the evidence showed she was present during the violence and aided him in the second homicide. The case now turns partly on what she knew, what she did after the first shooting and whether her actions helped place the second victim in danger.
The first pieces of the case came from the crime scenes. Officers were called to K Towne Plaza shortly before 10 a.m. and found four people shot at Gwangjang Korean Market in the 4000 block of State Highway 121. Sung Rae Cho died there. Three other people survived. About an hour later, police were alerted to another shooting at an apartment in the 2700 block of Denton Road. Officers found Edward Schleigh dead. The two scenes were close enough that detectives quickly began looking for a link, and police later said both shootings were tied to the same suspect and the same financial dispute.
Seung Ho Han was arrested after a brief foot chase near a grocery store in Carrollton’s Koreatown area. Police said he admitted shooting all five victims. He told investigators he was angry over business dealings, including $70,000 he said he gave Schleigh and $5,000 he said he gave another person for a Georgia property deal. He also complained about a rent increase at his sushi restaurant in K Towne Plaza. The evidence against him centered on the shootings themselves, his alleged confession and the business connections between him and the victims.
The evidence against Ae Son Han developed later. Police said detectives conducted follow-up interviews and reviewed multiple sources of digital evidence before arresting her in Minnesota. One of the most important pieces described in the affidavit was dashcam video from the drive after the first shooting. Investigators said the recording captured Seung Ho Han asking his wife to call Schleigh to see whether he was home. Police said she made the call and aided her husband in the second homicide. That alleged act connects her to the movement from the market to the apartment where Schleigh was killed.
Witness information also shaped the case. A surviving victim told police that after she was shot, she asked Ae Son Han to call 911. The affidavit says Han did not help. Police said she asked the woman, “Why aren’t you dead yet?” and said the woman should have been the first person killed. Detectives said Han then walked out of the market. That statement is likely to become a major issue in court because it could be used to argue that she knew a shooting had happened and chose to leave with her husband instead of seeking help.
Police also said Ae Son Han later acknowledged that her husband had killed people that day before she refused to cooperate further. The timing of that statement matters because investigators were working to separate knowledge after the fact from participation before or during the second killing. The murder charge suggests police believe she crossed that line. Authorities have not made public every item of evidence reviewed. They have not released the full dashcam video or a full transcript of the interviews. The affidavit details reported so far give only part of the record prosecutors may present.
After the second shooting, investigators said the couple went to a McDonald’s drive-thru and ordered drinks. Police have not described that stop as a separate crime, but it helps establish the timeline after Schleigh was killed. Seung Ho Han was later found and arrested. Ae Son Han left Texas and was arrested in Minnesota on May 18 with help from the U.S. Marshals Service. Police said they were working to extradite her to Texas. The arrest expanded the case from a single alleged gunman to a husband and wife accused of acting together during at least part of the attacks.
The legal differences between the charges are important. Seung Ho Han faces two capital murder counts, one for each death, and three aggravated assault counts for the surviving victims. Ae Son Han faces a murder charge tied to her alleged aid in the second homicide. Police have not said she fired a weapon. They have instead described her as present, aware and helpful to her husband’s effort to find Schleigh. Prosecutors will have to show that her conduct met the legal standard for criminal responsibility. Defense filings, if any, were not detailed in the public reports reviewed.
The community setting added weight to the case. K Towne Plaza is part of a busy commercial strip with Korean businesses and restaurants, and the shootings interrupted a weekday morning in a place where workers and shoppers would normally be moving between stores. Police said early that the violence was targeted, not random. That statement helped calm fears of a wider active threat, but it did not answer why a business conflict had escalated into gunfire. The later affidavit filled in part of that answer by naming the alleged money dispute and describing the couple’s conduct.
The next stage will test the evidence in court. Ae Son Han must be brought back to Texas for proceedings on the murder charge, while Seung Ho Han faces the capital murder and aggravated assault counts already filed against him. Investigators continue to rely on the timeline, witness statements and digital records to support the case.
Author note: Last updated June 19, 2026.