Convicted killer Tian (Eddie) Zhang has allegedly violated parole conditions by disappearing.
Zhang, 32, was featured in a Crime Stoppers bulletin this week for being “unlawfully at large.” A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
In 2017, Zhang pleaded guilty to manslaughter after he kidnapped an international student named Peng Sun in September 2015, then contacted his parents in China to demand a ransom.
Sun died — accidentally, according to Zhang — when he was strangled by a zap strap around his neck while he was being held in a North Vancouver basement.
Zhang was sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and granted full parole on Nov. 1, 2023. He went to live with his wife, Ya Ran Li, in a Richmond condo she bought two years earlier for $3.2 million.
A month after Zhang’s release, the RCMP raided the condo and seized $53,650, and boxes of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and methamphetamine. There was also lab equipment and a money-counting machine.
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