Cop involved in shooting suspended

A senior police officer, who ordered the fatal shooting of a civilian in Jiangxi province on Feb 29, has been suspended pending a new investigation into the case, the local prosecutors' office said yesterday.

Wang Haiquan, deputy chief of Poyang county police, which is under the jurisdiction of Shangrao, ordered one of his officers to shoot Chen Zhenyi as he was fleeing from a group of men who had earlier attacked him.

According to police records, Wang believed at the time that Chen, a 26-year-old employee of a road company, was high on drugs and posed a threat to police and the public.