next to a bloodied skateboard<\/a>, sources previously told The Post.<\/p>\nZhu Hou, 76, was found bludgeoned to death inside her Lower East Side apartment on Dec. 19 after a 911 call. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Police were seeking 41-year-old Wei Hou for his mother\u2019s grisly murder, but he fled the scene before cops arrived. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
\u201c[Wei] Hou is a naturalized US citizen who was born in China,\u201d the US Marshals statement read. \u201cHou had a lengthy criminal history in multiple states and was under the supervision of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for a felony narcotics conviction at the time of his arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n
State records show that Wei Hou was sentenced to up to two years in prison on a conviction for third-degree possession of a controlled substance, but was released on Oct. 14 after serving just four months.<\/p>\n
Cops found his mother\u2019s battered body in the hallway of her seventh-floor apartment after the victim\u2019s oldest son called 911, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n
Police were seeking 41-year-old Wei Hou for his mother\u2019s grisly murder, but he fled the scene before cops arrived. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
Sources said Wei Hou had previously clashed with his elderly mother before the fatal argument last week.<\/p>\n
Wei Hou had been sought on second-degree murder charges and had threatened to harm himself during the standoff, the US Marshals said. <\/p>\n
The suspect was being treated for unspecified injuries sustained during his arrest, but was due to be turned over to the NYPD late Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Cops referred all questions about the arrest to the US Marshals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese-American sought for the murder of his 76-year-old mother last week was nabbed by US Marshals while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,9098,3140,57,238,9,11,10,817,22194,58],"class_list":["post-81032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany","tag-chinatown","tag-fugitives","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us-marshals-service","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}