California man arrested for killing Chinese herbalist, his wife and child.

A California man, Pierre Haobsh, 26, was
charged yesterday Tuesday March 29th with
murder in the slaughter of the family of a
Chinese herbalist, his 5-year-old daughter and
his wife in a crime caused by a business
dispute. Haobsh was charged with murder with
special circumstances that he used a handgun,
killed for financial gain and committed multiple
killings.

After the murders, Haobsh ran 170 miles from
the murder was scene but was captured,
arrested and has been jailed since his arrest at
gunpoint Friday at a gas station in San Diego
County.

County sheriff's deputies who went to check on
the welfare of 57-year-old Dr. Weidong "Henry"
Han on Wednesday found his body, the body of
his 29-year-old wife, Huijie "Jenni" Yu, and the
couple's 5-year-old daughter, Emily Han, in the
family's multimillion-dollar home on the outskirts
of Santa Barbara.

They had been shot in the head and their
bodies had been found wrapped in plastic and
duct-taped in the garage, authorities said.
A loaded gun and property belonging to one of
the victims was found inside the car Haobsh
was driving during his arrest.

The two men were recently involved in a
business deal but nobody knows why the family
was really killed because Haobsh isn't been
cooperative with the police and it's not known if
he has a lawyer.

The killings shook Santa Barbara, where Han
was a popular figure. He had owned and
operated the Santa Barbara Herb Clinic since
1991, according to the clinic's website. Public
records show he is a licensed acupuncturist.

A biography on his website says he earned
degrees in Oriental and Western medicine from a
Beijing university in 1982, graduating at the top
of his class. He moved to the U.S. a few years
later to study psychology.

Han came from a family of Chinese doctors and
provided traditional treatments including
acupuncture, acupressure and herbal formulas
from an on-site Chinese pharmacy.

Source: AP