A Chino Hills man was killed by a business associate during what appears to have been a botched kidnapping attempt Wednesday night.
According to available information Zhengfeng Bo had already gravely wounded Shakur Aikebaer and had acted in concert with his brother, Jianquan Bo in throwing Aikebaer into his car trunk and was making an effort to leave the scene of the abduction when they were interrupted by responding sheriff’s department personnel. After being stopped, Zhengfeng Bo made a somewhat ambiguous show or surrendering and then shot the helpless Aikebaer while he was still in the car’s trunk. Sheriff’s officers immediately gunned down Zhengfeng Bo in response.
Zhengfeng’s motivation at this point is a mystery and will possibly remain so, as both he and Aikebaer died in the incident, and it is unclear what light the surviving Jianquan Bo will be able to shed on why his brother took the action he did.
A jumble of details has emerged, aided by the availability of both video and audio recordings of the critical moments that culminated in Aikebaer’s and Bo’s deaths, but the narrative of events remains disjointed and marred by Bo’s quirky behavior at several turns.
What is known is that some time shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29, Zhengfeng Bo, 67, and Jianquan Bo, 66, driving in a gray Nissan Altima arrived in the residential neighborhood in the 2100 block of Monteverde Drive in Chino Hills. One of them went to the electrical panel of the home occupied by Aikebaer, 60, his wife and their three daughters and cut the power. Upon Aikebaer going outside to inspect the fuse box, both Bos confronted him. Aikebaer was shot in the torso by one of the brothers. The commotion and firing of the gun elicited the attention of neighbors, at least one of whom saw Aikebaer being bundled into the Altima’s trunk.
At 10:14 p.m. Wednesday night, a call came into the sheriff’s dispatch center reporting that shots had been fired and providing a description of the Altima.
En route to the call, a deputy and a sergeant, each in separate vehicles, encountered the Altima, being driven by Zhengfeng Bo, both recklessly and at a high rate of speed. They immediately gave chase, as Bo attempted to elude them. Zhengfeng Bo pulled over in the midst of another residential neighborhood roughly a mile from Monteverde Drive, near Gemstone Court and Wandering Ridge Drive.
A soundless security video from one of the houses proximate to where the two shooting deaths occurred obtained by the Sentinel shows Jianquan Bo, who was on the passenger side of the car closest to the curb across and the street from where the video camera is positioned, get out of the car, in apparent compliance with the commands that he keep his hands raised, and move closer toward the sheriff’s personnel, who were near their two cars positioned roughly 30 feet to 35 feet behind the Altima.
Zhengfeng Bo remained in the car but, after a short duration, emerged on the driver’s side, and allowed the door to close behind him as he walked toward the back of the car. He took three steps, reaching a point where he was parallel to the back wheel and then gestured with his right hand as if pointing or acknowledging something slightly to the left of where the officers were poised, and then turned around and walked back to the driver’s door and opened it. From the camera’s angle of view, he momentarily appeared to be getting back into the car. Instead, he reached down into the car’s interior to pop the car’s trunk. After the lid of the trunk partially lifted, he again, in a remarkably nonchalant and calm manner considering the guns of at least two law enforcement officers were trained on him, walked back toward the rear of the car. As he transitioned from the back portion of the driver’s side of the car to behind it, he flipped the trunk top completely up and positioned himself behind the car, with his back to the officers, to gaze into the trunk’s interior. Aikebaer’s arm briefly came into view, and then Zhengfeng Bo discharged his gun into the trunk. Less then a second later, Zhengfeng was hit with the first of a volley of seven shots.
In a portion of an audio recording of the moments leading up to the deadly confrontation and the shooting itself obtained by the Sentinel an officer using a bullhorn and another one shouting can be heard. Audible is is an officer with a bullhorn saying, “Driver, put your hands up.” Then at a lower volume another officer can be heard yelling, “Get on your knees.” The officer with the bullhorn then says, “Back up. Back up.” The officer without the bullhorn can be hear yelling, “Get on your knees. Get down. Get down. Get down.” Four seconds then elapse, at which point the officer without the bullhorn yells, “Hey. Halt. Hey. Halt.” As the last word is uttered, what sounds like two shots, fired rapidly together, apparently from Zhengfeng’s gun are heard. Roughly a half second later, what sounds like seven shots are then audible over span of 3.5 seconds.
According to the coroner’s office, when he was at his property on Monteverde Drive, Aikebaer sustained a gunshot to the torso before he was put into the trunk of the Altima. While in the trunk in the in the 2400 block of Wandering Ridge Drive, Aikebaer was yet alive when he he was shot at least once in the head, which proved fatal.
It was subsequently determined by San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department investigators that Zhengfeng Bo and Jianquan Bo lived together in Irvine and it was confirmed they were brothers. An investigator with the department said the team of detectives working on the case were at a loss as to the motive in abducting Aikebaer or the violence to which he was subjected. They were unable to say whether Zhengfeng Bo’s intention all along had been to kill Aikebaer or whether that was a decision made by Zhengfeng Bo at the spur of the moment. They said Zhengfeng’s actions throughout the incident had been irrational and erratic.
Records indicate that Zhengfeng Bo and Shukur Aikebaer were entangled in a real estate transaction that went bad. Ostensibly, Bo and Aikebaer, who were linked through Bo’s company, Panschi Inc., were on the same side of a dispute with an outfit known as The Madison Collection LLC involving an apartment complex in Pasadena allegedly valued at $20-million.
Panshi Inc, based in Irvine, filed articles of incorporation with the California Secretary of State’s Office on November 28, 2018. and is approximately eight years old, as recorded in documents filed with California Secretary of State. Panshi Inc was is listed as an officer of Madison Collection LLC.
Reportedly, both Bo brothers and Aikebaer are Uyghurs, that is members of a Muslim sect, and were originally from the Xinjiang region of China.
According to available documentation, Panshi Inc had not developed the property in question, consisting of apartment units, but held the major note and title to it. Shengfeng Bo was the president and chief executive officer of Panshi Inc, and Aikebaer served as its chief financial officer and corporate secretary.
At Zhengfeng’s direction and that of another investor, Aikebaer had released at least $2.12 million to Madison Collection LLC, which took over operation of the property and served as its property manager. When Panshi Inc sought to reassert control over the property, Madison Collection refused to relinquish it and hostilities between the parties ensued. Meanwhile there were disputes between Panshi Inc and Madison Collection over payments due to vendors and service providers.
On February 17, 2026, Panshi LLC filed a commercial and trade contract lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Madison Collection LLC. The case, in which Panshi Inc was represented by attorney Michael Chen, was being heard at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse by Judge Jerrold Abeles.
-Mark Gutglueck