Naiyin Xue seen in Los Angeles' Chinatown (Pumpkin case)

FUGITIVE murder suspect Naiyin Xue has been reportedly spotted in the United States in Los Angeles Chinatown. The reports came as American police went on high alert in the search for Xue.

The last reported sighting of Xue was when he landed at Los Angeles international airport on Saturday (US time) and caught a shuttle van to LA's Chinatown district...

"We have received a red notice from Interpol so if we do come in contact with this gentleman we'll be able to arrest him and the US attorney's office will proceed with the extradition," LAPD officer Karen Smith said today.

"We're currently working with the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Marshal's office to try to locate him."

...As the manhunt went into full swing, a Los Angeles Kung Fu master said he believed Mr Xue might have headed to the city to seek revenge against him.

Anguang Sun wrote articles exposing alleged wrongdoing by Mr Xue seven years ago when the murder suspect lived in LA for several months.

"I'm the person he hates the most. He has strong reason to take revenge on me," he said.

Mr Sun said Mr Xue could kill if cornered. "He's crazy. He does not have a good temper. He does not control himself well."

Mr Xue flew to LA on Saturday after dumping three-year-old daughter Qian Xun Xue, dubbed Pumpkin, in Melbourne.

Officer Lee said Mr Xue could have travelled interstate or even overseas in the days before he was flagged as a person of interest.

"He could be in San Francisco or he could be in another country," he said. "If he has the money to fly to LA, then he could have flown anywhere after he arrived here. It is very easy to drive to Mexico."

The best sites are the New Zealand Herald and the major Australian press. It’s too bad, but many are not allowed to be posted per complaints, and others have to be edited, like the one above. Difficulty is, how to get under 300 words these stories that have so many twists and turns.

One was the missing adult daughter. About a month ago he was the subject of a short student film about his search for the missing daughter, crying about her, etc. with the interesting angle that she went “missing” while he was on an earlier trip to Los Angeles. Of course lots of people thought she met faoul play too. Nope, she turned up. She says she came from China when she was 19 and essentially he ignored her. She saw him two months ago and he wouldn’t acknowledge her existence.

“Wu Style Taijiqan was created by Mr Wu Yuxiang a Confucian scholar and further improved by his nephew named Li Yiyu. From then on Wu style Taijuquan has been handed down to the sixth generator.It is now one of the five major styles of Tai jiquan. Great Master Xue Naiyin is the successor of the sixth generation and he is one of the few that was formally named as International famous Tai Chi Master. The contains of this web site is priceless for all style Tai Ji practioners , because these are the condensation of Master Xue’s long term teaching experience and his extensive study in Chinese Martial.”

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I really, really hate it when a martial artist goes bad. That is so totally against what martial arts is all about.

I’m PO’d enough at some of the more thuggish, wall-punching UFC kids as it is. One should at least make an effort to act like a grownup.

from ABC Australia:

Abandoned toddler’s sister speaks out about father
By Michael Holland
September 21, 2007 - 9:37AM
Source: ABC
The case of abandoned toddler Xue Qian Xun has turned into a trans-pacific man hunt, with New Zealand police, who have been heavily criticised for their handling of the case, confirming her mother had been killed and her body stuffed in the back of the family car.

Her father, Michael Xue, has apparently fled to America and fears surrounding the whereabouts and safety of his eldest daughter from his first marriage have been allayed.

Meanwhile officials in NZ and Australia have cleared the way for her grandmother Liu Xiaoping to be reunited with the little girl.

Grace Xue came forward, not to speak for her fugitive father, but for the half-sister she has never met.

“I’m really worried about her well-being, what’s going to happen to her?,” Ms Xue said on the New Zealand TVNZ program Close Up.

“Is she going to be looked after? And is she going to go through the same emotions that I had when I was little? What can I do to help her not to feel the same way? I just want to help.

“I would very much like to see her and introduce myself to her, just to let her know that there is somebody there that cares about her and is going to give her support.

“I actively try not to think of [my father]. What [would] I say to him - ‘how could you?’ She just a little girl. I am angry, but I’m more sad.”

In the interview, Ms Xue describes her fugitive father as someone who “knows what he wants” and a person who “places himself above others.”

“He left me. There wasn’t home for me to be at and he left me two months [after] I arrived in New Zealand,” she said.

“He doesn’t love me and there’s no way I can count on him. I just decided that I need to count on myself and work really hard to build my own life.

“I have a loving boyfriend and have [the] most beautiful, gorgeous boy and I’m happy with where I am now.”

In a short film featuring his daughter Qian, Mr Xue says his elder daughter ran away and he had not seen her for four years.

“I guess people do things for different motives, different reason. I’m not sure if I can forgive him,” Ms Xue said.

“I was surprised that the way he left a little girl [Qian], but I’m not surprised that he abandoned her... similar things happened to me before, too.

“He doesn’t think he has a responsibility towards me, as a father.”

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