Taekwondo instructor in Australia accused of killing his student, 7, and the child's parents
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A taekwondo instructor in Australia is accused of killing his 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents before arriving at a hospital with stab and slash wounds on his body, according to police.

Kwang Kyung Yoo, owner of the Lion’s Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy, will be charged with three counts of murder, Homicide Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty said.

The killings were discovered after Yoo, who is known to his students as Master Lion, admitted himself to a hospital in Sydney Monday night for “stab wounds or slash wounds” to his chest, stomach and arms, Doherty said. Yoo claimed to police he had been attacked in a supermarket parking lot.

Police say Yoo killed his young student and the boy’s 41-year-old mother Min Cho, 41, at his academy following a class on Monday before driving to their home and killing the boy’s father and Cho’s husband, 39-year-old Steven Cho.

Police investigate crime scene in Sydney

Kwang Kyung Yoo, owner of the Lion’s Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy, will be charged with three counts of murder, Australian authorities said. (AP)

“It’s not only tragic in the circumstances, but the consequences were cataclysmic. We’ve just lost three people from one family who’ve had their lives taken away,” Doherty said.

Yoo drove the woman’s BMW sedan from the academy to the family’s home to kill the man before using it to drive himself to the hospital, according to reports.

Doherty said the instructor underwent surgery for his wounds and understood that he was under arrest.

“There [were] no warnings, from what we have gathered so far,” Doherty said. “It was out of the blue. It wasn’t something that was forewarned or planned.”

The maximum penalty for someone convicted of murder in New South Wales state is life imprisonment, with a standard non-parole period of 20 years for the murder of an adult and 25 years for the murder of a child.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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