US gunman, 67, from Shanghai
By Zha Minjie |
December 19, 2011, Monday
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A GUNMAN who fired shots at a Chinese consulate in the United States last Thursday has been identified as 67-year-old Jeff Baoliang Zhang, originally from Shanghai.
Los Angeles Police said Zhang turned himself in at their Wilshire Division on West Venice Boulevard three hours later after the shooting.
Zhang is now a naturalized US citizen and lives in Las Vegas, police said.
It was reported that Zhang once worked as an English and tourism teacher at the Shanghai Institute of Tourism in the 1980s. He went to America in 1986 for further study, according to the United Chinese Press, a Chinese language newspaper based in New Zealand.
People who knew Zhang and had been in contact with him recently said that he had been acting "abnormally" before the shooting at the consulate.
A total of nine shots were fired at the consulate in Los Angeles, police said.
There were no reports of anyone being injured in the shooting.
Police said Zhang appeared to be firing shots at a security guard. He missed, but the building was hit several times.
Police confiscated his weapon, a 9mm handgun, and booked him for attempted murder.
Bail has been set at US$100,000, and Zhang is currently in custody and being held at the police department's downtown Metropolitan Detention Center.
Zhang was born in Shanghai and graduated from the Shanghai Foreign Language Studies University, now the Shanghai International Studies University, in 1966 with an English language degree.
During his stay in the US, Zhang wrote a book called "Accusing the American Judicial System of Rampant Corruption," in which he recorded six cases he filed against various institutions and companies in the US including New York University, where he once studied, for discrimination.
According to a description on the back cover of the book, Zhang studied parks, recreation and tourism management for his master's degree at Michigan State University from 1987 to 1989.
Then he studied the recreation and leisure studies program at New York University for his doctoral degree.
Los Angeles Police said Zhang turned himself in at their Wilshire Division on West Venice Boulevard three hours later after the shooting.
Zhang is now a naturalized US citizen and lives in Las Vegas, police said.
It was reported that Zhang once worked as an English and tourism teacher at the Shanghai Institute of Tourism in the 1980s. He went to America in 1986 for further study, according to the United Chinese Press, a Chinese language newspaper based in New Zealand.
People who knew Zhang and had been in contact with him recently said that he had been acting "abnormally" before the shooting at the consulate.
A total of nine shots were fired at the consulate in Los Angeles, police said.
There were no reports of anyone being injured in the shooting.
Police said Zhang appeared to be firing shots at a security guard. He missed, but the building was hit several times.
Police confiscated his weapon, a 9mm handgun, and booked him for attempted murder.
Bail has been set at US$100,000, and Zhang is currently in custody and being held at the police department's downtown Metropolitan Detention Center.
Zhang was born in Shanghai and graduated from the Shanghai Foreign Language Studies University, now the Shanghai International Studies University, in 1966 with an English language degree.
During his stay in the US, Zhang wrote a book called "Accusing the American Judicial System of Rampant Corruption," in which he recorded six cases he filed against various institutions and companies in the US including New York University, where he once studied, for discrimination.
According to a description on the back cover of the book, Zhang studied parks, recreation and tourism management for his master's degree at Michigan State University from 1987 to 1989.
Then he studied the recreation and leisure studies program at New York University for his doctoral degree.
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