Fugitive in shooting captured in Dongguan

A man witnesses identified as the shooter who killed three people and wounded six in a township of Raoping county, Chaozhou, Guangdong province, was detained on Sunday in Dongguan, according to a police officer at the Chaozhou public security bureau.

Two guns and 29 rounds of ammunition were seized by the police.

The alleged killer, Lin Zhonghong, 40, escaped to Dongguan, a Pearl River Delta city, also in Guangdong, after he shot nine people in Jingzhou township on Tuesday, the police officer said.