100,000 yuan reward to find cop killer

• Source: Global Times
• [01:51 March 11 2010]
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By Fu Wen

Police are offering a huge cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of a man who killed a police officer in Lanzhou, Northwest China's Gansu Province.

The officer went to the suspect's home to investigate an earlier violent dispute between him and his wife.

Fu Xiaolin, 39, a vegetable vendor in Chengguan district, reportedly had a fight with his wife, Liu Hualing, on Tuesday after he accused her of having an affair.

Fu threatened his wife with a gun and asked her to tell the truth.

Fu fired at Liu but the bullet missed her. She alerted police who responded to their home.

After several officers entered his home, Fu fired and a bullet struck one officer in the neck, and he died later at a hospital.

Police announced the 100,000-yuan ($14,647) reward and are asking for clues that could lead to his arrest, Gansu-based Lanzhou Evening News reported Wednesday.

More than 200 police officers were deployed to track down Fu in Lanzhou and they checked cars throughout the city, China News Service reported Wednesday.

Earlier, the provincial police authority surrounded the residence after the shooting and attempted to force him out of the apartment, but Fu was gone.

The newspaper said Fu is a drug addict and was arrested for disrupting public order in 2007 and for gambling in May 2009.

The police ended the blockade in Fu's residential community Wednesday morning and at the vegetable market where Fu works, which is opposite to Fu's residence, an official from administrative office of the market told the Global Times Wednesday.

The police station where Liu reported the problem declined to discuss the case Wednesday.

The Global Times tried to contact the Lanzhou public security bureau Wednesday but was not successful.