Suspect in killing of children found hanged
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POLICE yesterday found the body of a man believed to have stabbed to death four schoolboys in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Officers discovered the body of 56-year-old Shi Jianting on Luoyang Mountain in Lingshan County, 7 kilometers from the crime scene.
Shi’s clothes were found around the decayed corpse and DNA tests confirmed the identity of the body. Shi is believed to have hanged himself.
More than 2,000 police officers and civilians had searched for Shi, a native of Gupu Village in the county, following the murder of the four children as they walked to school on September 26.
He was thought to have fled to the nearby mountains after the attack.
Around 6.40am he attacked one child at the gate of Gupu primary school, two on the corner of the street and his final victim 200 meters away, according to a witness.
Three of the boys died at the scene, while the fourth, an 8-year-old with neck wounds, died later at a health center.
The ages of the three other victims were not given.
Shi’s motorized tricycle was later found in the neighboring town of Fozi, CCTV said.
Gupu residents said Shi was a quiet man who had served in the army and ran a grocery store, The Beijing News said.
According to his wife, he had become paranoid and thought certain people were bringing misfortune to his family.
But he had never mentioned the four children in this way, she added.
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