A file photo of Kuang Yulin, a man suspected of killing four people in Shanggao county, East China's Jiangxi province. (Photo from web)
The man suspected of killing four people in Shanggao county, East China's Jiangxi province, was shot dead by police when he was found and refused to surrender on Tuesday night, according to a notice from the county publicity authority.
Kuang Yulin, a 43-year-old villager born in Jinjiang township, was suspected of killing the four, including a couple and two men, in three incidents on Monday, according to the notice published by the Shanggao publicity authority on its Sina Weibo account.
A 46-year-old shop owner, who is said to have had a dispute over money with the suspect, was shot at about 9 am Monday at a shop in a building materials market.
Subsequently, Kuang went to a textile mill and opened fire on another man, a 35-year-old, authorities said. Then he escaped the scene on a motorcycle.
Local police immediately started searching for Kuang and found two more people dead at about midnight on Tuesday. Authorities determined the man and woman, who lived next door to Kuang in a rented room on a dairy farm, were the first victims in the killing spree.
The couple's son-in-law said that his father-in-law and mother-in-law had mentioned that they had quarrels with Kuang over the vegetable plot behind the house.
Local police set out in pursuit of Kuang at about 10:45 pm Tuesday after receiving tips on his whereabouts. Finally, the suspect, who had a homemade gun, was killed in Nanyuan village, Jinjiang town, as he resisted apprehension.
Kuang had been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 1996, and four years in 2009, both times for larceny.
