Nanjing killer remains at large
By Ni Yinbin |
January 11, 2012, Wednesday
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A SUSPECT sought in connection with a fatal shooting in Nanjing is still at large after five days of an intensive manhunt in the capital city of eastern Jiangsu Province.
A customer was shot in the head and robbed last Friday as he was leaving a bank having withdrawn 200,000 yuan ($31,700) in cash. Surveillance camera footage of the suspect making his escape was released by the police on Sunday.
Thousands of officers were drafted in to take part in the hunt for the suspect believed to be a former policeman who is implicated in a series of killings and robbers dating back to 2004.
Criminal investigation experts including Chen Zhen, deputy director of Shanghai police, went to Nanjing to offer assistance after the robbery.
The identity of the killer is still unclear, analysts said.
"The Ministry of Public Security of China would have issued an A-class wanted circular in this case but so far there isn't one, which means the police still don't have the exact identity of the killer," said Yang Zeqiang, general director of Shanghai's criminal investigation department.
According to a description released by the Nanjing police, the suspect is around 40 years old and 1.7 to 1.8 meters tall. He has tanned skin, splay feet and wore dark colored clothes. He doesn't speak fluent Mandarin, police said.
The description was still too vague to positively identify the suspect, Yang said.
However, there are some who believe him to a be a man on the B-class wanted list called Zeng Kaigui. He is alleged to have killed a man in an armed robbery in southwestern Yunnan Province in 1995.
Both Zeng and the Nanjing suspect are of similar build, around the same age and had shot their robbery victims dead.
Zeng, 42, was an armed police officer from 1989 to 1992 and the Nanjing killer's rapid escape also made police suspect that he had a military background, according to a Nanjing police statement.
But they have not yet confirmed that Zeng is the man they are looking for in connection with the Nanjing shooting.
Police in Jiangsu Province are offering a reward of 100,000 yuan for information leading to the suspect's capture, and believe the case is connected to armed robbery and murder cases in Hunan Province and Chongqing Municipality.
Added to rewards offered previously by Yunnan, Chongqing and Hunan police, that means there could be a reward of 2.45 million yuan if the man responsible for all the crimes turns out to be Zeng.
Nanjing authorities deployed 13,000 officers and two helicopters to search for the suspect.
Police were boarding buses checking passengers against photos of Zeng. They also manned roadblocks and checked train stations and bus stops in the Yangtze River city 300 kilometers from Shanghai. They searched Internet cafes and hotels and other sites frequented by migrants.
Wanted notices are on display across the city and taxi and bus drivers have been issued with the suspect's photograph.
The atmosphere in the city is "kind of tense," a doctor in Nanjing, Liu Canhui, said.
"But I'm not afraid though, the whole city is after the guy."
A customer was shot in the head and robbed last Friday as he was leaving a bank having withdrawn 200,000 yuan ($31,700) in cash. Surveillance camera footage of the suspect making his escape was released by the police on Sunday.
Thousands of officers were drafted in to take part in the hunt for the suspect believed to be a former policeman who is implicated in a series of killings and robbers dating back to 2004.
Criminal investigation experts including Chen Zhen, deputy director of Shanghai police, went to Nanjing to offer assistance after the robbery.
The identity of the killer is still unclear, analysts said.
"The Ministry of Public Security of China would have issued an A-class wanted circular in this case but so far there isn't one, which means the police still don't have the exact identity of the killer," said Yang Zeqiang, general director of Shanghai's criminal investigation department.
According to a description released by the Nanjing police, the suspect is around 40 years old and 1.7 to 1.8 meters tall. He has tanned skin, splay feet and wore dark colored clothes. He doesn't speak fluent Mandarin, police said.
The description was still too vague to positively identify the suspect, Yang said.
However, there are some who believe him to a be a man on the B-class wanted list called Zeng Kaigui. He is alleged to have killed a man in an armed robbery in southwestern Yunnan Province in 1995.
Both Zeng and the Nanjing suspect are of similar build, around the same age and had shot their robbery victims dead.
Zeng, 42, was an armed police officer from 1989 to 1992 and the Nanjing killer's rapid escape also made police suspect that he had a military background, according to a Nanjing police statement.
But they have not yet confirmed that Zeng is the man they are looking for in connection with the Nanjing shooting.
Police in Jiangsu Province are offering a reward of 100,000 yuan for information leading to the suspect's capture, and believe the case is connected to armed robbery and murder cases in Hunan Province and Chongqing Municipality.
Added to rewards offered previously by Yunnan, Chongqing and Hunan police, that means there could be a reward of 2.45 million yuan if the man responsible for all the crimes turns out to be Zeng.
Nanjing authorities deployed 13,000 officers and two helicopters to search for the suspect.
Police were boarding buses checking passengers against photos of Zeng. They also manned roadblocks and checked train stations and bus stops in the Yangtze River city 300 kilometers from Shanghai. They searched Internet cafes and hotels and other sites frequented by migrants.
Wanted notices are on display across the city and taxi and bus drivers have been issued with the suspect's photograph.
The atmosphere in the city is "kind of tense," a doctor in Nanjing, Liu Canhui, said.
"But I'm not afraid though, the whole city is after the guy."
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