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.