CRIME Texas: Family massacre suspect arrested when he returned to US from China.

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Cypress family massacre suspect arrested when he returned to US from China, sheriff says​

Feng Lu is accused of killing Maoye Sun, 50, and his wife Mei Xie, 49, as well as their 9- and 7-year-old sons.

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CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) -- An unthinkably gruesome tragedy in a quiet Cypress neighborhood more than eight years ago may have finally gotten closure.

At one point, the Harris County Sheriff's Office had no leads and no suspects in a January 2014 massacre that led to the deaths of two parents - father Maoye Sun and his wife Mei Xie - and their two small children - 9-year-old Timothy and 7-year-old Titus.

The video above is the ABC13 Houston's 24/7 Streaming Channel.

But on Tuesday, investigators announced a breakthrough with the arrest of 58-year-old Feng Lu.

Lu was taken into custody in the San Francisco Bay Area when he arrived on a flight from China. San Francisco police, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, and the Homeland Security Investigations division took him into custody, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted.

He was transported to the San Mateo County, California jail where he is being held pending extradition to Texas on capital murder charges.

The sheriff did not say how investigators tied Lu to the killings.

Investigators believe the Suns were shot in their Coles Crossing home sometime on the evening of Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. Their bodies weren't discovered until the father failed to show up for work the following Monday.

The killings particularly rocked Houston's Chinese community, with some members expressing frustration over the lack of information a year later.

"I think people in the Chinese community, they will feel unsafe. They won't know why it happened. What's the motivation, until we have answers," Yinging Sun, the head of the citizens group Houston Chinese Alliance, who is not related to the victims, told ABC13 in 2015.

The younger two victims were specifically memorialized in the neighborhood where they once felt safe. Two saplings were planted outside of the community pool by the Cub Scout pack to which Timothy and Titus belonged.
Beneath each, a small stone memorial reads "In Loving Memory... Always in Our Hearts."

Cypress family massacre suspect arrested when he returned to US from China, sheriff says

It took close to nine years, but authorities believe they have the man who killed four members of a family, including two small kids, in custody.

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[Firedave]

When he gets back to Harris county I'm sure that they will find a judge that will release him on a reduced bail or no bail at all. It's catch and release in Houston with the Dems running everything.

 

[energy_wave]

Was this guy commanded to kill his American family in order to save his family in China? Maybe given huge amounts of $$$ as well. Remember, Pelosi said they are ruthless. Unless she meant they have no people in China named Ruth.

 

[mzkitty]

Psycho was crazy to think he could just waltz back in here.......

 

[Dennis Olson]

Glad they got him.

 

[mzkitty]

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Man Wiped Out Boss’ Family After Getting Rejected for a Job Promotion, Cops Say​

Wed, September 14, 2022 at 6:11 PM

A man accused of brutally executing an entire family outside of Houston eight years ago has finally been arrested, with authorities taking him into custody on Sunday just moments after he arrived in San Francisco from China.

Fang Lu, 58, now faces capital murder charges for allegedly massacring the Sun family—Maoye, 50, MeiXie, 49, Timothy, 9, and Titus, 7. All four were found dead in separate bedrooms with bullet holes in their heads on Jan. 30, 2014.

While the massacre itself is heartbreaking, the alleged motive behind it is equally chilling.

Lu is suspected of wiping out the Sun family because he was mad that Maoye, his superior at work, did not recommend him for a promotion, said court documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle.

Specifically, Lu told the feds in an interview that he wanted to transfer to work at another department within the oil and gas company Cameron International Corporation—now named Schlumberger—and asked for Maoye to put a good word in.

Instead of making a recommendation, however, Lu speculated that Maoye said something derogatory about him. Not only was he not promoted, but he claimed his co-workers began treating him differently a day after he asked for the promotion.

Lu has admitted to being angry at Maoye over the incident, but has always denied being behind the killings.

Court documents say Lu told conflicting stories to authorities about a gun he’d purchased and later returned to the store without a barrel. That was enough to have a warrant issued, cops said, but it came after Lu had left the country.

Authorities say they’re now able to tie the massacre to Lu, after forensic technicians recovered DNA mixtures from a Coach purse from the crime scene that had Lu’s DNA on it.

Cops said the DNA match didn’t come until after Lu had already returned home to his native China, and detectives feared they’d never be able to make an arrest. That changed on Sunday, however, when the feds took Lu into custody just minutes after he landed in California.

The Chronicle reported that the killing had baffled friends and family for years. There was a $70,000 reward offered for anyone who provided useful information, as Houston’s Chinese community reeled in grief.

But now, with the family’s suspected killer behind bars, one community leader says the arrest brings him more questions than it does answers.

“If this guy did it—how dare he come back?” David Cao, a board member of the Houston Chinese Alliance, told the Chronicle. “Was Fang in China for all of the past eight years? Had he traveled to and from the U.S. during that time? When had authorities focused on him?”

Family members felt an enraged colleague was the only explainable theory for the hit. That theory appears to have been proven correct on Tuesday, when Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez announced Lu’s arrest.

“There’s so much we do not know at this moment,” Cao said. “But I hope justice will be done for this family. I just can’t believe it. How can a human being do this? Wiping out an entire family?”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Man Wiped Out Boss’ Family After Getting Rejected for a Job Promotion, Cops Say

Harris County Sheriff's OfficeA man accused of brutally executing an entire family outside of Houston eight years ago has finally been arrested, with authorities taking him into custody on Sunday just moments after he arrived in San Francisco from China.Fang Lu, 58, now faces capital murder...

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