The suspect, a 44-year-old man surnamed Zhong, was reportedly detained by Dongguan police in 2015 for damaging public telecommunications facilities and released on bail, the state-owned Shenzhen Special Zone Daily said on Friday. And it said that in 2019, he was handed an administrative detention – a maximum of 15 days – by Shenzhen police for fabricating facts to disrupt public order. The accused man Zhong confessed to attacking the boy on Wednesday, the Shenzhen outlet said, citing police.
02:37 Chinese residents mourn death of 10-year-old Japanese boy stabbed in Shenzhen The police have called this week’s case “isolated”, saying the alleged attacker had no accomplices and that the case was being investigated. In a previous attack in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in June in which a Chinese woman was killed when stopping a knife-wielding attack on a Japanese mother and child, local police only described the attacker as a 52-year-old unemployed man surnamed Zhou..
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Suspect in Japanese boy’s stabbing is jobless with criminal record, Chinese media says
Information about the sensitive case is tightly controlled by Chinese police, media and internet censors.