Chutian Golden Newspaper - Around 4 p.m. the previous day, under the custody of the Jing Shan fugitive pursuit team, seven suspects accused of murder, theft, and robbery were brought back to Jing Shan. Among them, Huang had fled for 24 years after participating in a case that resulted in death. Why did he go down this path of no return? And why did he choose to surrender himself after 24 years of crime? The reporter conducted an exclusive interview regarding these questions.
After a failed pickpocketing attempt, Huang participated in a violent act that led to a fatal case. The 45-year-old Huang standing before the reporter has completely lost his vitality and vigor as a man. He shared with the reporter his feelings about his 24-year escape, hoping to advise those criminals on the run that it is never too late to turn back.
On November 24, 1988, Huang, then 21 from Songhe Town in Jing Shan who was hospitalized due to osteomyelitis, had just been discharged when he was invited by Xu and Chen among 11 other street "hooligans" to steal on a bus. When the bus reached Qu Village in Sanyang Town, Xu and Chen were caught in the act. To vent their dissatisfaction, Xu and Chen violently assaulted multiple villagers from Qu who tried to stop them. One of the villagers, Xiao, in his twenties, was injured and later died in the hospital after unsuccessful resuscitation attempts. A forensic examination determined that Xiao's death was caused by the rupture of an aortic vascular瘤due to external force impact. Upon hearing the news, Huang became frightened, believing that causing someone's death constituted a capital offense, so he fled Jing Shan overnight. Among the 11 people involved in the crime, Xu, Chen, and four others were sentenced to 10 and 15 years in prison for hooliganism. However, Huang, who fled, became a wanted criminal on the police’s list.
Huang endured hunger for days at a time, tasting the bitterness of being a fugitive. Huang's life on the run lasted for 24 years. "I suffered greatly during those years..." Huang told the reporter. Afraid of exposing his identity, he could only work hard labor in small factories or brick kilns, not daring to eat outside, often going hungry for an entire day.
"For 24 years, I have never dared to call my family voluntarily, nor have I ever sent money home," said Huang, who would often wake up in the middle of the night, thinking that the police had found him.
"These years I also haven't fulfilled my filial duties..." Huang mentioned that during his escape, his father passed away due to illness, and his mother remarried elsewhere.
In October this year, Huang suddenly received a call. On the other end of the line was his mother's desperate cry. She told him that she had gone blind and could no longer take care of herself. In anxiety, Huang spent two months. Finally, under the persuasion of the police, his family, and friends, Huang decided to surrender himself.
Huang expressed that instead of spending the rest of his life evading arrest in constant fear, it would be better to accept legal punishment early, reform himself, and start anew, striving to fulfill his filial duties to his elderly mother in her twilight years. (Reporter: Zhou Soujiang, Correspondent: Xie Zhengyu)
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