'Zhou was quiet, well-behaved'

Zhou Kehua, the man suspected of committing a series of violent robberies and killing several people since 2004, is unsociable but likes reading, according to his family's neighbors.

In a attempted raid on Friday, Zhou is alleged to have killed a woman and wounded two men outside a bank in Chongqing's Shapingba district.

"I didn't believe it was him until I saw the wanted notice," said Zhu Guoliang, 52, whose home is less than 100 meters from the three-story house owned by Zhou's parents in the district's Ertang village.