BEIJING AP A Chinese court has sentenced a deputy police chief to death for fatally shooting a passerby during a gambling raid the official Workers' Daily reported Tuesday. The Liuzhou No. 1 Intermediate People's Court in the southern Guangxi region also ordered Hongdu township deputy police chief Zhu Kehan to pay 8000 yuan dlrs 970 to Lan Rimin's family the newspaper said. Lan a truck driver unwittingly entered the Leyi restaurant during the raid Zhu led on the suspected gambling parlor on April 21 the newspaper said. Hearing Zhu in a rage Lan ran out and the deputy police chief drew his pistol and fired the report said. Although Zhu reported the shooting the court noted that his conduct had a pernicious effect on society and issued the death sentence ``to calm the people's anger'' Workers' Daily said. APW19981201.0455.txt.body.html APW19981201.1153.txt.body.html