Chongqing shooting
| Chongqing shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Chongqing, China |
| Date | April 5, 1993 |
Attack type | Mass murder, murder-suicide |
| Weapons | Hunting rifle |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
Non-fatal injuries | 3 |
| Perpetrator | Chen Xuerong |
The Chongqing shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Chongqing, People's Republic of China on April 5, 1993. Chen Xuerong, a worker at the Chongqing machine factory, who was angered by a mistake on his timesheet, armed himself with a hunting rifle and searched for his boss with the intent to kill him, but upon finding that the latter was not present he shot dead three of his co-workers.
Pursued by security guards, Chen escaped the factory grounds by jumping over a wall, and once out on the street fired at a family of four passing by on a motorcycle with sidecar, fatally hitting a man and two women, and wounding the fourth. He next injured a soldier in a van, and then killed another man, on whose bike he fled. At a junction Chen stopped and hijacked a taxi, after killing the driver, and injuring his passenger, and eventually killed himself by driving down a 30-meters deep ravine, about 40 minutes after firing his first shots.[1][2][3][4][5]
References
- ↑ El Mundo, El Nuevo Herald (April 7, 1993).
- ↑ Amokläufer erschießt acht Personen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (April 7, 1993).
- ↑ Pris de colère, un ouvrier chinois tue huit personnes, AFP (April 6, 1993).
- ↑ Amokläufer in China erschiesst acht Personen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (April 7, 1993).
- ↑ Worker kills 8, Asian Recorder (p. 23105).