Cop killer wanted to be professional assassin

By Jane Chen | July 12, 2010, Monday |

Online Edition

A ZHEJIANG man suspected of shooting dead two traffic officers while he was on the run for killing a young couple said he had planned to be a professional assassin.

Hu Yihua was caught in Xiamen City, southeast China's Fujian Province on July 8, today's Guangzhou Daily reported.

He allegedly told police that he had planned to take a train from there up north to Zhejiang Province, where he had killed the couple and stolen their Lexus sedan, and then go to southwest China's Yunnan Province before going to Myanmar to be a hired solider.

Inspired by his father, who had served in the Chinese army for five years, Hu's ideal was to be a soldier, or a professional killer.

He had applied to join the army, but was rejected due to his poor eyesight, villagers in his hometown in Zhejiang's Jinhua City told Guangzhou Daily.

Since 2008, Hu has been obsessed by guns and military websites. Zhejiang police seized two guns and an army knife from his apartment in Jinhua.

Jobless Hu is divorced and a gambling addict, the report said.

Hu allegedly told police that he hijacked Wang Zhiming and Zhu Weisheng on the night of July 2 in Yiwu City when the couple was picking up their Lexus sedan at a parking lot after seeing a movie.

He took the couple to a suburban place near a highway, forced them to hand over their bank cards and codes, and then shot them dead early next morning, the report said. He dumped their bodies off the road, took 3,000 yuan in cash and flagged a taxi to go back to Jinhua to sleep, said the newspaper.

That night, he rented a car to return to the site and buried the bodies, and then returned to Jinhua again.

On July 4, he took a public bus to the site and drove the Lexus southward to Guangdong, where he planned to sell it.

But he was stopped by two traffic policemen at a checkpoint in Guangdong's Jieyang City. He shot the officers dead, the report said. Guangdong police sent out more than 1,000 officers to search for him.

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Cop killer wanted to be professional assassin

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