Copkillersarrestedin14hours
From: Shenzhen Daily
Updated: 2005-12-05 00:12
SHENZHEN police solved the murder of two policemen Saturday and arrested two suspects within 14 hours, a spokesman of the city"s public security bureau said yesterday.
According to the spokesman, the two policemen, whose names were not revealed, were assigned to the Yantian Police Station. They were in a police car near Shatoujiao in Yantian at 3 a.m. Saturday morning when they almost collided with a car carrying the suspects, known only by their surnames Su and Liu.
The four got into a quarrel, during which the suspects took out knives and stabbed the policemen to death. The murderers fled immediately afterwards, the spokesman said.
The murder shocked Shenzhen police, who arrested the criminals at 5 p.m., 14 hours after the murder.
Su is a Hong Kong citizen and has drug-related convictions in Hong Kong. Liu, also a drug addict, was imprisoned for 18 months in 1995. Both of them have admitted their crime, the spokesman said.