Horror on a US marijuana farm: Four Chinese nationals executed

Four Chinese nationals were executed and another was injured in a mysterious shooting last Sunday at a marijuana farm in rural California county. Oklahomain the United States. There’s a suspect in custody.

So far there are more unknowns than certainties about the crime. The link between the victims and the aggressor is not known and there are no details as to why they were murdered “violentlyin the style of an execution”.

“There’s a lot to uncover in this case. It’s going to take some time to process,” said Captain Stan Florence, of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, who explained the lead hypothesis is that the perpetrator would know the victimswhich were found on Sunday on a four-acre marijuana farm located on a rural road in Hennessey, about 90 kilometers northwest of Oklahoma City.

For its part, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation reported that the perpetrator entered a marijuana farm around 5:43 a.m. Sunday. “He was there for a significant amount of time before the killings started.“, he indicated.

In particular, the corpses correspond to three men and a woman, all of Chinese nationality. “I don’t know if they are relatives or work colleagues, but we believe all of these individuals knew each other,” Florence suggested, without giving details of their identity.

A woman was also found at the crime scene. injured person, who was airlifted to a hospital in Oklahoma City, where she is still recovering. No medical reports on her health have been released. Relatives of the victims have also not yet been informed, due to the “significant language barrier”.

Meanwhile, Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Office of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control, which is also investigating the deaths, said Tuesday that the site where the killings occurred had an active license to grow marijuana, although they are analyzing whether it is been obtained. illegally or fraudulently.

“Since spring 2021, the state has issued approximately 8,500 licenses to grow marijuana, but authorities have determined that approximately 2,000 of these licenses were obtained fraudulently,” Woodward said.

In addition, he warned that they registered “several murders related to the medical marijuana business in Oklahoma“.

Suspect arrested

Initially, the police authorities indicated that they had “a suspect in mind”, whose name they avoided in order “not to put more people in danger”, as they considered him “armed and dangerous”. During Monday they circled the property with drones, helicopters and several officers on foot, but found no trace.

Finally, the suspect was arrested on Tuesday by members of the Miami Beach Police Department after a digital license plate reader located the car he was traveling in. He has been identified as Wu Chen, 45, charged with murder and will be extradited from Oklahoma.

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