Police searched Xiong’s junkyard and found six more bodies as well as blood-tainted axes and hammThe bodies of the three men and three women were identified as employees at Xiong’s junkyard. They were all natives of Luoyang town, aged from 45 to 69.A neighbor of Xiong said Xiong divorced his wife three months ago hoping to marry Zhu. “After Zhu turned him down, Xiong wanted to make up with his wife but she too rejected him.” Other people in the town confirmed the story, said Wan Xuebin, public security chief of Suizhou. “But no one could explain why Xiong might have killed the junkyard workers.”
Zhu’s husband died many years ago and her son and daughter-in-law were working away from home.
Police in central China seized a man suspected of killing eight people, including a 2-year-old boy who was slain with an axe, state media reported Sunday.The official Xinhua News Agency said authorities nabbed 35-year-old junk collector Xiong Zhenlin on Sunday in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.The report said Xiong confessed to police that he had killed eight people but did not say if he had been arrested or charged.Xiong is accused of killing the boy, Zou Chuanshuo, and the child's grandmother Zhu Deqing, 43, last Sunday as well as six others.Police were still investigating the motive behind the killings, but the report said neighbors told police that Xiong wanted to marry Zhu — a widow — but she turned him down.The bodies of the boy and grandmother were found Monday in their home in Luoyang in Hubei province with head wounds that suggested the killer used an ax, Xinhua said.Police discovered six other bodies — three men and three women — after searching Xiong's junkyard Monday. The six, between the ages of 45 and 69, were employees at his salvage operation but it wasn't clear when they had been killed. They found bloodstained axes and hammers on the premises.Reports of violent crime are relatively rare in China, where private gun ownership is virtually banned, although there have been scattered cases of revenge attacks. Police in central China’s Hubei Province said Sunday they had seized a man who was suspected to have killed eight people, including a two-year-old boy, last week.
A resident in the provincial capital Wuhan called police at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, saying he had spotted a man who resembled Xiong Zhenlin, a suspect hunted by police.
Xiong, 35, was listed as the most wanted suspect by police after the brutal killings last Sunday night in Suizhou City. Two police officers found the man sitting at a junk collection station in Jianghan District at 11:18 a.m.. He tried to escape at the sight of the policemen but was seized and taken to the police station, where he confessed he was Xiong Zhenlin.
Xiong told police he killed eight people in Luoyang Town last Sunday night and fled to Hainan Province in the south the next day. He had just arrived in Wuhan when police caught him. Xiong was handed over to police authorities in Suizhou Sunday aftern.Police are yet to find out his motive behind the killings. Zou Chuanshuo, a 2.5-year-old boy, and his grandmother, widow Zhu Deqing, 43, were found dead in their home in Luoyang town of Suizhou City last Monday morning. The wounds on their heads suggested the attacker was armed with an axe, and they had died after midnight, said a spokesman with Suizhou public security department.
Investigators named Xiong Zhenlin, a local junk collector, as a suspect. Xiong’s mother called police early Monday saying he was nowhere to be found.
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