Texas authorities have arrested a man they allege murdered a family of four execution-style in their home in 2014.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirms Feng Lu, 58, was arrested in San Francisco on Sunday.
Police took Lu into custody at the airport soon after he arrived on a plane from China. Lu remains in California, where he’s currently awaiting extradition to Texas.
Lu is charged with four counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of the Sun family, who were found fatally shot on Jan. 30, 2014, inside their home in the Houston neighborhood of Cypress.
Evidence that led to Lu’s arrest has yet to be revealed pertaining to the case. However, police say there is solid evidence that Lu murdered engineer Maoye Sun, his wife Mei Xie, and their two young children, Timothy, 9, and Titus, 7.
The killings made news both in the United States and in China.
No motive for the killings has been discussed, but authorities have confirmed Lu and Maoye Sun once worked together.
Early in the case, investigators speculated the killings were a targeted hate crime. Chinese reports on the killings claimed the crime was connected to a high-ranking Chinese government official, who was being investigated for corruption. Others theorized a professional hitman was hired to murder the family.
For years, local police faced criticism from Houston’s Chinese American community, who felt police were not doing enough to solve the case.
Rogene Gee Calvert, the director of Outreach Strategies, where she works on the Texas Asian American Redistricting Initiative, said, “The community is just very gratified that the accused has been arrested. Police had not been very open with local leaders about the progress of the investigation and kept quiet about the case in general.”
“It was a surprise and a very good surprise,” says Calvert, who says she was personally “shocked” to learn of Lu’s arrest. “We know that law enforcement has its hands full in general, and that this was never a cold case. There was enough there that they could stay on this person and be waiting for him when he arrived on American soil.”
“We are now just awaiting the real motive of why the Sun family was so brutally murdered,” Calvert concluded.
It was unclear Wednesday how long Lu was in China, or why he returned to the states.
now that bastard could have been arrested a long time ago , if cops would not have been stalking innocent blacks , that guy probably passed right by a group of cops harassing some innocent black person , because they look suspicious to them while playing with their kids in a public park, and that Asian serial killer who looks like a gorilla probably was eating a rat fried rice dinner with chopped sticks while looking and laughing at those nit wits waste tax payer funds ,
Sounds like you have some racial issues. You don’t like anyone but black?