Police hold killing spree suspect
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April 16, 2011, Saturday
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POLICE in northeast China's Liaoning Province yesterday afternoon caught a man suspected of killing 10 people, including his father, wife and 10-year-old son.
Zhou Yuxin, 33, was detained in the city of Dashiqiao, about an hour's train ride from the crime scene in the city of Anshan, an official with Anshan's police bureau said yesterday.
Ten bodies were found on Thursday at a bathhouse and neighboring car wash in Ertaizi Village, in Anshan's Ningyuan Town.
The dead were Zhou's wife, son, father, a female bathhouse worker, two members of Zhou's landlord's family, a man in a neighboring store and three car wash workers.
Police said extramarital affairs were possibly behind the killing spree, which took place between late Wednesday and early Thursday. Some people said Zhou pulled off the killing spree to vent his frustration at his stalled business expansion plans.
Zhou was seized by Dashiqiao's local police.
Residents of Dayangqi Village, the suspect's hometown which is only a few kilometers from the crime scene, said Zhou's family had a history of mental illness. His maternal grandmother suffered from mental disorders, as did his mother who ran away from home when Zhou was a toddler, villagers said. Zhou's father and mother were cousins, they said.
However, villagers said besides his introverted personality, Zhou was normal.
Family medical history and the marriage of cousins could have had some impact on Zhou's mental health but tests will be needed to see whether he was mentally ill, said Yao Sheng, head of a mental health hospital in Anshan.
Zhou Yuxin, 33, was detained in the city of Dashiqiao, about an hour's train ride from the crime scene in the city of Anshan, an official with Anshan's police bureau said yesterday.
Ten bodies were found on Thursday at a bathhouse and neighboring car wash in Ertaizi Village, in Anshan's Ningyuan Town.
The dead were Zhou's wife, son, father, a female bathhouse worker, two members of Zhou's landlord's family, a man in a neighboring store and three car wash workers.
Police said extramarital affairs were possibly behind the killing spree, which took place between late Wednesday and early Thursday. Some people said Zhou pulled off the killing spree to vent his frustration at his stalled business expansion plans.
Zhou was seized by Dashiqiao's local police.
Residents of Dayangqi Village, the suspect's hometown which is only a few kilometers from the crime scene, said Zhou's family had a history of mental illness. His maternal grandmother suffered from mental disorders, as did his mother who ran away from home when Zhou was a toddler, villagers said. Zhou's father and mother were cousins, they said.
However, villagers said besides his introverted personality, Zhou was normal.
Family medical history and the marriage of cousins could have had some impact on Zhou's mental health but tests will be needed to see whether he was mentally ill, said Yao Sheng, head of a mental health hospital in Anshan.
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