Society
Reward out for latest gunman
By Lan Tian (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-12-07 08:03
Police in Hunan province on Sunday announced a reward of 200,000 yuan ($29,000) for clues about a suspect who killed two men in two separate shootings.
On Friday, a 41-year-old man surnamed Guo was killed outside a bank on the downtown Southern Furong road in Changsha, capital of Hunan province.
The victim had allegedly withdrawn cash before the suspect shot him in the head, Xinhua News Agency reported. The suspect fled after robbing the victim of 45,000 yuan. Police are searching for the suspect.
The suspect was described by police as a man of average build, about 40 years old and 1.7 m tall. He was wearing a dark gray jacket and trousers, and wore sunglasses.
"The investigation shows that the suspect who shot Guo was the same man who shot another man in October," a policeman surnamed Hu with the Changsha Public Security Bureau told China Daily yesterday.
A 50-year-old man surnamed Li was shot dead by a handmade gun in the city's Nanjiao park on Oct 14, Hunan Daily reported.
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Shooting cases have been rising in the country this year.
A roadside shooting left nine residents wounded last Tuesday night in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.
Several suspects vandalized a store selling bottled water in Hongxing village in Guangzhou's Baiyun district, which was soon followed by a man in a van who fired his shotgun at onlookers.
The case is still under investigation and 11 suspects have been arrested.
In June, police arrested 44-year-old Li Zhiying after he shot a woman with a sporting rifle on a street in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province. The victim was blackmailing Li after Li had an extramarital affair with the victim's sister.
Last month, the Supreme People's Court issued a revised regulation on criminal cases involving guns and explosives. The amended regulation, which takes effect next month, expands the scope of gun and explosive-related crimes to include "illegal storage" of robbed or stolen explosives. The current regulation, which dates back to 2001 defines such crimes as illegal manufacturing, selling, transporting and mailing explosives and guns.
Chinese courts have handled about 2,500 gun and explosives-related cases every year since 2002, court statistics have showed.
