8 china MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2012 CHINA DAILY Hunt under way for suspected robber, killer

By XU WEI and MA WEI TIMELINE in Chongqing SINCE 2004, ZHOU KEHUA IS SUSPECTED A massive manhunt is under OF BEING INVOLVED IN way for a man police believe A SERIES OF ROBBERIES shot and killed a railway police AND SHOOTINGS. offi cer on Friday. The suspect, Zhou Kehua, • April 22, 2004 who is also the suspect in a series One woman was shot of robberies and killings dating dead and another woman to 2004, is thought to have com- injured in a bank rob- mitted his latest homicide when bery in Jiangbei district, the offi cer was patrolling a sec- in Southwest China’s tion of railway in Chongqing on Chongqing. The sus- pect took 70,000 yuan Friday aft ernoon, according to ($11,005). an offi cer from the Chongqing Zhou Kehua is suspected of • May 16, 2005 public security bureau who did killing 10 people and injuring not want to be identifi ed. fi ve in a series of shootings and Two suspects shot and robberies since 2004. robbed a couple near a The attack has intensified bank in Shapingba district the fears that have been stoked in Chongqing. A passer-by LONG WEI / FOR CHINA DAILY by the 42-year-old gunman’s Changsha since 2004, includ- was also shot. The couple Police offi cers block access to the arch that collapsed in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, on Sunday. alleged crimes. He is believed ing the police officer and the died. The suspects made to target people who are with- woman who died on Friday. off with 170,000 yuan. drawing money from banks and In the hunt, the police have • March 19, 2009 has become adept at dodging had to battle against tempera- A People’s Liberation Arch collapses in Hangzhou, police manhunts. tures as high as 40 C and the Army soldier standing Th e search for Zhou has been dense bushes and forests of guard outside a garrison in Chongqing was shot going on since Friday morning, Geleshan Mountain. Their dead. The victim, identi- when he is suspected of hav- search has uncovered a moun- fi ed as 18-year-old Han killing two tourists, hurting one ing killed a woman and injured tain cave that Zhou is believed Junliang, was shot twice another two in a robbery in to have stayed in. Inside it were in the chest with a pistol. which he is thought to have two cigarette cases, a T-shirt and The suspect took the gar- Accident on stolen 250,000 yuan ($39,300) human waste. Media reports rison guard’s submachine gun and ran. from the victims. said police extended their hunt • Oct 14, 2009 tourist-fi lled By Sunday afternoon, large to Chongqing’s Tongliang and numbers of police officers, Bishan counties on Saturday A 56-year-old farmer was shot dead in a park in shopping street Armed Police Force offi cers and morning. Tianxin district of Chang- People’s Liberation Army sol- Wu Changming, a 52-year- sha, capital of Central thought linked diers were combing the slopes old resident of Geleshan town- China’s Hunan province. of Geleshan Mountain, where ship, said police offi cers in the The suspect used a to heavy rainfall Zhou is believed to be hiding. township are on guard 24 hours homemade gun. As part of the search, notices a day. • Dec 4, 2009 By SHI YINGYING offering rewards for clues to Relatives of the two people A 41-year-old man was in Shanghai Zhou’s whereabouts have been who were injured in the shoot- shot dead outside a [email protected] posted in almost every street in ing on Friday declined to be bank in Tianxin district of Changsha. The victim had urban parts of Chongqing and interviewed on Sunday. The withdrawn cash and was Two people were killed and police have established check- victims are receiving medi- walking to his car when another one injured when points on many large streets and cal treatment at a hospital in the suspect shot him in an arch collapsed at a major at tollgates on highways. Chongqing. the head. The suspect tourism attraction of Qinghe- The Chongqing police are Previous media reports have took 45,000 yuan from fang in Hangzhou, Zhejiang off ering a 500,000 yuan reward described Zhou as cunning and the man. province, on Sunday morn- for tips leading to Zhou’s cap- ruthless, a man who never stays • Oct 25, 2010 ing. ture dead or alive. in hotels and is capable of sur- A trading company owner The accident happened Th e Ministry of Public Secu- viving in the wild. was shot dead in Yuhua around 9:30 am, shortly aft er JU HUANZONG / XINHUA rity has classified Zhou as a A police source in Nanjing, district of Changsha. the traditional commercial The arch, shown earlier this year, stood on a street built in the style of the Song Dynasty. • June 28, 2011 “class-A” suspect. In all, 5.4 mil- Jiangsu province, has confi rmed street Qinghefang opened to lion yuan in rewards are being that Zhou is also suspected of A 48-year-old business- the weekend tourists. “I was only 10 meters away Local government said the ever, its ability to prevent offered for tips leading to his having committed a shooting man was shot in the Lu Jin’e, a 58-year-old wom- from the accident,” said Zou arch was built in October decay is poor, that’s why head and stomach as capture, according to media and robbery in Nanjing in Janu- he got out of his car an from Hubei province, died Feng, a tourist from the near- 2001. Its base was made of blocks of stone are usually reports. ary, the news website people. near a construction site at the scene, and 62-year-old by city of Jinhua. reinforced concrete and it used as seats to stop direct On Geleshan Mountain and com.cn reported on Friday. in Tianxin district of Jiang Guiying, a tourist from “I heard an big crash from had a wood structure on top. contact between soil and in its environs, police officers Zhou is believed to have shot Changsha. The man was the Xinjiang Uygur autono- behind and it took a few min- Local authorities said ini- wood,” said Zhou Gang, an have been dispatched in groups and robbed a man in front of a taken to a hospital and mous region, died aft er being utes for the dust to disperse, tial investigations indicated architecture professor at Xi’an stationed 50 meters apart on bank on Nanjing’s Dongmen survived. rushed to a hospital. and I didn’t know what hap- the collapse was caused by University of Architecture roads leading up and down the Street on Jan 6 just aft er the man • Jan 6 Qin Yang, 65, Lu’s hus- pened at fi rst but few minutes a fracture in the reinforced and Technology. mountain. A large number of had withdrawn 200,000 yuan. A 42-year-old man was band, broke both his legs and later I realized that the arch concrete and wood connec- “Th e traditional handicraft offi cers, meanwhile, were stand- Media reports have also said shot in a robbery in Nan- spent four hours in surgery collapsed. tions. to bond stone and wood (for jing, Jiangsu province. He ing at the top of the mountain Zhou served a short prison term was robbed shortly after at Hangzhou No 1 People’s “Th ere was a woman who Further investigation is this kind of arch) needs to road. in Yunnan province in 2005 he withdrew 200,000 Hospital. was under the ruins — I could under way, a spokesman for be exquisite because unlike A publicity offi cer from the aft er he had been found guilty yuan from a bank in the A doctor surnamed Yao tell she was a tourist because the Shangcheng district gov- structures built by bricks or Chongqing police declined to of traffi cking fi rearms. Xiaguan district. The said Qin was in a critical con- she held Hangzhou’s city ernment, which administers concrete, arches can’t resist release new information about suspect fl ed the scene dition when he arrived at the map in her hands, another the street, said at a news con- high winds, not to mention the search for Zhou, who is Contact the writers at xuwei@ by jumping into a vehicle. hospital but his condition had 60-something man had his ference on Sunday. typhoons,” said Zhou, who The victim died in a suspected of killing 10 people chinadaily.com.cn and mawei@ hospital. been upgraded to stable aft er legs smashed.” Some residents suggested specialized in civil engineer- in Chongqing, Nanjing and chinadaily.com.cn the surgery. Qinghefang Street, in the the collapse could be linked ing and housing safety issues. Qin’s son, who wished center of Hangzhou and close to the recent heavy rainfalls Typhoon Haikui caused not to be named, told China to the West Lake, was built in brought by typhoon Haikui, widespread fl ooding and dis- Daily that his father is likely the style of the Song Dynasty which recently tore through rupted traffi c when it moved to undergo more surgery. He (960-1279) when Hangzhou the city. through Hangzhou last week. ‘Zhou was quiet, well-behaved’ said the government should was the capital of the dynasty. “Th e timber structure itself explain to him how the trag- However, the arch was not a is safe in terms of wind and Zhou Yiyi in Hangzhou By XU WEI in Chongqing Zhou’s parents’ home is on sand mine to private contrac- edy could occur. historical building. earthquake resistance, how- contributed to this story. [email protected] top of a small hill surrounded tors, and Zhou had several jobs by vegetable fi elds and pigsties. aft er that. Zhou Kehua, the man sus- Compared with the bustling “He worked as a cargo loader pected of committing a series metropolis scores of kilometers and bus driver. Th en he went to of violent robberies and kill- away, the village looks like a other cities as a migrant work- ing several people since 2004, forgotten corner, with a nar- er,” Zhu said. Facial mask pulled off shelves after death is unsociable but likes read- row, winding trail connecting Zhu said Zhou is a “relatively ing, according to his family’s the homes. loyal son” to his parents, who By SUN LI in Fuzhou posted a statement on its Sina of caution, Zhang said. negotiate with Watsons China. neighbors. Zhou spent most of his are not very well-off and sel- [email protected] Weibo micro blog stating “Watsons customers who Jin’s relatives could not be In a attempted raid on Friday, childhood here, right up until dom socialize. that the product met national may have purchased the prod- reached on Sunday. Zhou is alleged to have killed a his early 20s. “After he got married, he Watsons China has pulled quality standards and passed uct at our stores can return A dermatologist at Fujian woman and wounded two men Zhu recalled Zhou as quiet oft en visited his parents with one of their facial masks off a toxicological risk assessment it for a full refund,” she said, Medical University Union outside a bank in Chongqing’s and well-behaved. his wife and son.” shelves across the country fol- conducted by a third-party adding tests on the product Hospital surnamed Wang said Shapingba district. “He never chitchatted aft er Zhu heard from neighbors lowing the death of a 42-year- agency in Europe. are under way. she had never come across a “I didn’t believe it was him work,” said Zhu, who worked that Zhou, already a wanted old woman whose relatives More than 900,000 boxes of If tests prove it is safe it will case in which a person died until I saw the wanted notice,” for a time with Zhou. suspect in several provinces, claimed the product caused the facial mask have been sold be returned to shelves, she from using a facial mask. said Zhu Guoliang, 52, whose “Whenever we finished was back home when his father the tragedy. since 2010 and no complaints said. Most problems related to home is less than 100 meters loading a truck, he sat in a cor- died in August 2011. According to news portal have been reported about Th e company said in an ear- facial masks are allergy-based, from the three-story house ner and read. He never off end- “People said he was back fjsen.com, the woman from allergic reactions to the mask, lier statement that Jin’s family she said. owned by Zhou’s parents in the ed anyone. But he also never around 9 or 10 pm and left in Fuzhou, capital of East China’s the statement said. has not agreed to cooperate Wang urged customers to district’s Ertang village. joined us,” Zhu said. the morning. Fujian province, surnamed There is as of yet no evi- with it in its internal probe and read instructions carefully Wang Guobi, a 72-year-old Zhu was most impressed by “He is very similar to his Jin, purchased Watsons’ White dence to prove the facial mask an autopsy. when choosing cosmetics. resident who said her son was the young man’s habit of read- father in his character. Neither Pearl facial mask in July. is the cause of Jin’s death, said Fuzhou police said the inci- Watsons China is part of a classmate of Zhou’s at school, ing. of them liked to talk. His father Aft er using it on Aug 6, Jin’s a spokeswoman for Watsons dent is a civil case and is still the health and beauty retail recalled: “He was not a naugh- Zhou had more than four would be irritated when some- body turned red and her lips China, who identifi ed herself under investigation. and consumer division of the ty or talkative child. He was a years of working experience one played jokes on him. purple and she was rushed to as Zhang. An offi cer with the Shangjie Hong Kong-based A.S. Watson good boy.” as a river-sand miner in the “But I never remember Zhou a hospital where she later died, The brand has been police station, which admin- Group. It operates more than Wang’s son declined inter- 1990s. He was forced to quit getting off ended. He was quiet the report said. removed from Watsons Chi- isters the case, said police are 1,000 stores on the mainland, view requests. as the village contracted the and liked being alone.” On Friday, Watsons China na’s stores out of an abundance trying to help family members according to its website.