送交者: testtest 于 2006-5-22, 11:53:15:
Too bad this happens more often this days.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/westvalley/articles/0824WalMartShooting24-ON.html
Man suspected of shooting ex-wife, her parents
Senta Scarborough and Ty Young
The Arizona Republic
May. 18, 2006 03:28 PM
A man involved in a contentious court battle with his ex-wife apparently shot
and killed her Thursday in Mesa before driving to a townhouse about a mile
away in Tempe and shooting her parents, police said.
Mesa police said Wen Lie Zhang, 41, is suspected of gunning down Jian-Yun Zhao
, 36, at about 1:15 p.m. inside Golden Gate Chinese Restaurant near Loop 101
and Baseline Road, where she worked as a waitress. About 15 minutes later,
Zhang shot her parents at a home near Lakeshore Drive and Baseline Road, a
mile from the restaurant, police said.
Their condition was unknown.
Zhang, who had not been found as of late Thursday afternoon, is described as
Asian, about 5 feet 10 and 160 pounds. Police said that he was driving a green
1996 Ford Thunderbird with Arizona license plate NVY303 and that he could be
headed for Tucson.
The couple had been married for 10 years and divorced for two. Zhang was an
engineer at Raytheon in Tucson.
Zhang and Zhao were to be in court Wednesday for a hearing on custody issues,
including parental time and modifying child support, but Zhang did not show,
police said. In February, a judge ordered Zhang to pay 78 percent of their
debt and gave them joint custody of their 9-year-old son. During the custody
battle last year, Zhang, representing himself, claimed his ex-wife wasn't
caring for their son's medical needs.
Zhang and his ex-wife stopped living together in January 2003 when she filed
for divorce, court records show. She lived with her parents.
Zhao worked as a waitress at the Golden Gate in Mesa for four years. She
graduated from high school in China and attended English language classes at
Mesa Community College.
On Thursday, Peter Anderson, office manager at Anderson Animal Clinic, said he
was leaving his office at 11:30 a.m. and found an Asian man fitting Zhang's
description crouching between the restaurant's rear entrance and a storage
building.
Anderson said he confronted the man about moving his car, and the man drove
off on Baseline Road.
"He didn't act too disturbed that I asked him about the car," Anderson said.
Mesa police said they received a 911 call from the restaurant at 1:15 p.m. and
found Zhao with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her parents were shot a few minutes later at the townhouse. A toddler was
taken from the home unharmed.
The townhouse was partitioned off for hours as police interviewed neighbors,
who said Zhao's parents were a "quiet family" who kept to themselves.
"We saw them, said 'hi' and stuff, but they didn't stand out or anything,"
said Mike Doria, who lives in the complex.
Neighbor Samantha Sapio and her husband, Paul, have lived there four years.
"I think it's horrible," she said. "It makes me worry that this guy is still
on the loose."
In Mesa, Roseanne Newton, who owns nearby Tumbleweed Stained Glass, said a
Golden Gate restaurant employee told her a man came through the restaurant's
back door and shot Zhao twice.
Anyone with information on Zhang's whereabouts is asked to call Tempe police
at (480) 350-8766.