Jan. 24--A La Ca Flintridge man suspected of attacking his wife and killing two of his nephews in their Arcadia home has been taken into custody by authorities in Hong Kong, according to reports.
The suspect, Deyun Shi, 44, apparently fled Los Angeles by airplane on Friday and landed in Hong Kong, a former British colony and now a semi-autonomous Chinese territory, around 5:25 p.m. local time Saturday.
Hong Kong's Oriental Daily newspaper reported that authorities had removed a person surnamed Shi from Cathay Pacific Flight 897. The man was reported to be speaking incoherently and was transported to a local hospital for evaluation, the paper said. Video recorded by the paper showed a person strapped to a stretcher and draped with a red blanket being unloaded from an ambulance and taken into the hospital.
An operator at North Lantau Hospital, reached early Sunday morning local time in Hong Kong, said Shi had been at the hospital earlier but had left. No further information was available.
Hong Kong police refused to comment on the case as of 8 p.m. local time. A person who answered the phone at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Hong Kong, when asked about the case, said only that it was "in progress" and referred further inquiries to a press officer who did not immediately reply. The State Department's 24-hour press duty officer did not return requests for comment.
The mother of the two slain boys, 15 and 16, discovered one of them in the living room of the family's townhouse at 12:30 p.m. Friday. She called Arcadia police, who found her second son in his third-floor bedroom. Both teenagers had suffered blunt-force trauma to their upper torsos and were pronounced dead at the scene. No weapon has been found.
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L.A. County Sheriff's homicide Lt. Eddie Hernandez said his department was working with federal authorities on the case. Hong Kong has an extradition treaty with the U.S.
Authorities said Shi was angry after learning that his wife wanted a divorce. His wife, the sister of the dead boys' father, had requested a restraining order against Shi, and he learned of her divorce plans during a Thursday court hearing in Pasadena, authorities said.
Shi's wife, Lin Yujing, filed for a temporary restraining order against Shi on New Year's Eve, according to L.A. County records.
Shi, who had moved out of his family's home in the 5200 block of Vista Miguel Drive, broke into the La Ca Flintridge residence Thursday night and attacked his wife with a wood-cutting tool, Hernandez said. Their 15-year-old son intervened, and Shi left.
Investigators believe Shi later drove to the three-story townhouse in the 400 block of Fairview Avenue in Arcadia, where the boys lived with their parents. "We're not sure when he got" to the house, Hernandez said.
Early Friday, the boys' parents left home to go to the hospital to visit Shi's wife, leaving the teenagers asleep.
When they returned at 5 a.m., they noticed nothing unusual and went to bed. The father left a few hours later, and the mother discovered one of her sons unresponsive and bleeding profusely.
The sheriff's department is not releasing the boys' names. Hernandez said they were born in this country and their parents are Chinese nationals.
Although law enforcement officials have not identified the boys, a representative for the Arcadia Unified School District said they were Anthony Lin, 15, and William Lin, 16. Both boys attended Arcadia High School, a few blocks from their home.
"The loss of William and Anthony will be felt by the thousands of students, staff, friends and family that loved and knew them well in our tight-knit community," district spokesman Ryan Foran said in a prepared statement.
Classmates and friends gathered at the Fairview Avenue home Saturday with flowers and packages.
Justin Tsou, 18, covered his face and sobbed as he placed dozen white roses on the steps of the townhome. Tsou had been friends with William, the older brother, since middle school, and the boys volunteered together at Methodist Hospital, where they checked in visitors, discharged patients and delivered flowers.
William, a junior, had hoped to study biology or chemistry in college, and competed on Arcadia's Science Olympiad and Science Bowl teams. Both groups had hoped that William could be a captain when he was a senior, Tsou said.
Eden Hardy, a 16-year-old junior at Arcadia, lived in the same condo complex as the Lins, but rarely saw the brothers outside school, she said. In her Spanish class, William acted "kind of shy," she said, "but you could tell he had a sense of humor."
Anthony, a sophomore, was always laughing, cracking jokes and greeting people in the hallways of the high school, friends said. During summer prep classes for the PSAT exam last year, Daniel Oh, 13, often joked around with him, playing pranks on other students between lessons.
"We made each other laugh," Oh said. "He'd tell a joke, I'd tell a joke and we'd just laugh and laugh."
When Oh asked about his family, Anthony usually changed the subject, he said.
Makinen reported from Beijing, Boxall and Nelson from Los Angeles.
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