At around 8 a.m. on December 23, Hong Kong** received a report that a 22-year-old man was lying on his stomach in a vacant lot near a village house in Fanling Wai, Jockey Club Road, Sheung Shui. Ambulance crews arrived at the scene and confirmed that the man had died at the scene.
According to sources, the deceased was a man from China, a mainland student studying for a master's degree in Hong Kong. Subsequently, an in-depth investigation was launched to suspect that the incident involved a suspicious drug party.
22-year-old Mainland student dies after injecting** after attending party Superintendent Chung Chi-keung, Assistant Commander (Crime) of Tai Po District, recounted the case and said that at about 8am on December 23 this year, ** received a report from a member of the public that a man was found lying on the ground and unconscious in a vacant lot near a village house in Fanling Wai. Ambulance crews arrived at the scene and checked and confirmed that the man died at the scene.
At that time, the deceased was lying on his back in the open field, carrying no belongings or identification documents, wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt and long pants, but no shoes. A preliminary forensic examination found that the deceased had a 4-centimeter abrasion on the left back of his head and a 1-centimeter abrasion mark on his right thigh, but no obvious fatal injuries were found. There were no obvious signs of a fight at the scene. At that time, ** listed the case as a body discovery case, and due to the abnormal situation at the scene, the case was transferred to the 3rd Team of the Tai Po District Crime Unit for follow-up investigation.
* An extensive investigation of the perimeter of the crime scene is ongoing, including scrutinizing a large number of surveillance footage and questioning villagers. It was preliminarily determined that the deceased was not a resident of the village.
Subsequently, ** launched an investigation into the missing persons and found that the deceased was a 22-year-old Chinese man surnamed Xu, a student from the mainland who was studying for a master's degree in Hong Kong. After an investigation into the rented accommodation of the deceased in To Kwa Wan, the deceased's background was further understood. **A suspicious unit in Fanling Wai was locked up and a raid was conducted on the night of the 25th. Two men were found inside the house, surnamed Guan (51 years old) and Zheng (20 years old), and a small number of suspicious ** were found.
After investigation, ** believed that the deceased had been to the unit on the night of December 22 and had a party with 5 men. During this period, two of them noted suspicious notes to the deceased. However, later the deceased fell unconscious and suspected death, the five men carried the deceased away from the unit where the crime occurred, then abandoned him in a vacant lot in the village 20 meters away from the scene of the crime, and then left.
* Two men, Kwan and Zheng, were arrested, with Kwan charged with "manslaughter" and "unlawful handling of a body," while Zheng was charged with "unlawful handling of a body." * The third suspect (surnamed Zheng, 62 years old) was arrested in the early morning of the 26th in Kengtou Village, Sheung Shui, on suspicion of "manslaughter" and "illegal disposal of corpses", suspected of manslaughter of two people and injection of drugs to the deceased. The investigation is still ongoing, and all other people involved will be pursued with full force.
The three ** officers will later face charges of "manslaughter", "illegal handling of corpses" and "trafficking in dangerous drugs", and the case will be heard at the Fanling Magistrates' Courts tomorrow (28th). As for the true cause of death of the deceased, it is still necessary to wait for the confirmation of the results of the forensic autopsy.
Update: The informant, Mr. Cheng, described in detail how he found the body. Mr. Cheng was the first to discover the body on the 23rd of this month while working on a canal in the village, and he has a deep friendship with the villagers. According to his understanding, the deceased was not a tenant in the village, but went to play with the tenant.
Mr. Cheng described that the weather was cold at the time, and he saw the victim lying on his back in the open field, wearing a black sweatshirt on his upper body, and only ** on his lower body, and his ears, lips and hands were black. He pointed out that "some villagers are often convenient here, thinking that he is just drunk and freezing to death at night, and he didn't think that it was a ** together".
Mr. Zheng admits that he has heard from villagers that there are often parties in nearby village houses, making noise, and "there are notices plastered around that it is not allowed to be drunk**, otherwise call the police immediately". He revealed that some of the original residents here rented out their village houses, and the deceased was not a tenant, but went to play in the tenant's flat.