Laguna Woods Church Shooting Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

David Wenwei Chou (L), the 68-year-old Las Vegas man accused of carrying out a shooting rampage at a Laguna Woods church, makes his first in-person appearance in superior court for an arraignment, with Deputy Public Defender Jennifer Ryan in Santa Ana, Calif., on June 10, 2022. Mark Rightmire/Orange County Register/TNS

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty Aug. 19 to opening fire inside a Laguna Woods church in an alleged hate crime attack that killed a local doctor and injured five other parishioners.

David Wenwei Chou, who was ordered held without bail, was scheduled to return to court Oct. 21 for a pretrial hearing.