Shabad killer’s last trail: police reconstruct Raj Kumar’s final 63 hours
Police have reconstructed the final 63 hours of a murder suspect, Raj Kumar, who committed suicide after killing six people. Evidence shows he attempted to evade capture by using public transport and monitoring news reports via the internet.
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For nearly three days after six people were killed in Daivalaguda village of Shabad , P. Raj Kumar appeared to have disappeared without a trace until his body was found on a Monday (July 13) afternoon in Kothur.
Now, investigators from the Future City police say they have pieced together his final movements, reconstructing a journey that took him from a village temple to a budget hotel in LB Nagar, onto a taxi back towards Kothur and, finally, to an isolated roadside where he is believed to have consumed a herbicide and ended his life.
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