A weird murder case has been cracked in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, indicating that a man who has a physical disability hired a killer to kill himself, announced local police on Tuesday.

The police in Zhengzhou City said they worked for 38 days to crack the case and the murder suspect has been arrested. However, the victim is still in a coma.

On the afternoon of Oct. 11, 2015, an attendant in a hotel in Zhengzhou suddenly heard a weak voice asking for help from a room. When he opened the door, he found a young man lying on the bed covered in blood, reported the Zhengzhou Evening Post.

The hotel manager called the police and told them that at noon another young man wheeled the disabled victim into the hotel, and that he never thought something like this could happen.

The victim was discovered with more than 10 wounds in his belly and has been in critical condition ever since.

Zhengzhou police set up a special unit to investigate the case and collected video clips from monitor cameras placed along the roads in 180 locations. The videos show that the suspect removed the victim from a hospital, went to a bank to get money and then bought two mobile phones and a knife. The two went to the hotel at around 11:00 a.m.

According to the police investigation at the hospital, the victim was suffering from a car accident which had caused him paraplegia years ago and didn't speak too much since then. On the day of his attempted murder, a young man claiming to be the cousin of the victim removed him from the hospital to "get some fresh air" and never came back.

The police investigated the victim's laptop, found a lead in the victim's QQ instant message records and located the suspect in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. The suspect was arrested on Nov. 18, 2015.

The suspect has confessed to police that he read online in March 2015 regarding the commercial opportunity of helping others commit suicide. In such scenarios, the clients usually resolve not to contact the police and leave all their money and property to the commissioned killer.

As a result, he decided to start this business very soon and was contacted by the victim in September. The victim told the suspect that he had lost all faith in future life and wanted to be killed, while promising a monetary reward for the killer. The suspect went to Zhengzhou on Oct. 10, 2015 and was paid 70,000 yuan (US$10,794) on Oct. 11 to kill the victim. He then proceeded and escaped.

The police said the suspect has been arrested for the crime of attempted intentional homicide.

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