Prosecutors to probe cop over fatal shooting
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A former police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant noodle stallholder in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for not serving him tea has been passed to prosecutors on suspicion of intentional homicide, Beijing Youth Daily reported yesterday.
Hu Ping, a former deputy police chief in Pingnan County, has also been fired from the police and dismissed from the Party, the Central Political and Judiciary Commission was cited as saying.
Hu is alleged to have visited the stall run by Wu Ying on the evening of October 28 after drinking heavily with colleagues working on an investigation. When Wu, who was five month’s pregnant, told him she did not sell the milk tea he had requested, Hu drew his gun and shot her and her husband, the report said.
Wu and the unborn child died later in hospital, it said. Husband Cai Shiyong suffered a bullet wound to his shoulder, but survived.
According to police, Hu claimed he shot Wu after quarreling with her. Cai, however, denied there had been an argument before the shooting,
Investigators said Hu had violated regulations banning the consumption of alcohol by armed officers. Staff from a nearby restaurant claimed Hu and other men had earlier drunk a lot of alcohol.
Zhou Xian, the former head of Pingnan police and deputy county chief, and Li Jian, a former political commissar at the police bureau, who were with Hu at the time of the incident, were also removed from their positions in the Party and government, the commission said.
Several other people have also been punished, it said.
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