Slain fugitive had gone shopping, visited cinema
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Zhou's girlfriend is being questioned by police. Some media reports claim the fugitive disclosed his robbery plots to her before carrying them out.
Zhou has been described as "arrogant and defiant" by the two police officers who killed him in the Tuesday morning shootout.
"He had a chance to run. But instead, he chose to walk toward us after discovering we were chasing him," Zhou Jin, one of the two police officers who exchanged gunfire with Zhou, told the Chongqing Morning News.
Zhou was plotting another robbery attempt before he was killed in the shootout with the police on Tuesday, the Chongqing Daily quoted police as saying.
Yi Xi, a police officer from Changsha, Hunan province, denied a previous report that claimed Zhou had previously been a mercenary in Myanmar.
Zhou was the prime suspect in 10 murders.
In 2004 and 2005, he was alleged to have killed three people when robbing them.
In 2009, he was alleged to have killed a security guard at a military barracks while stealing his rifle.
Between 2009 and 2011 in Changsha, he is alleged to have murdered four people, and attempted to rob three of those victims.
After the alleged robberies and killings in Changsha, he hid in a local graveyard.
He carefully plotted each attempt, used a diversion tactic and disguised himself, the Changsha police said in a statement on Tuesday.
The earliest entry on Zhou's criminal record is in 1986 when he was 16 years old and spent time in police custody after molesting a woman. His later run-ins with the law were gun-related. He spent two stints in prison for possession of guns, one in 1993 in Wuhan, Hubei province, and again in 2005 in Kunming, Yunnan province.
He was described by his ex-wife as harboring a mania for guns.
"He always carries guns on his body and cleans the gun every time he gets a minute. He once said the gun is his life," she told Chongqing Daily.
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