List of rampage killers (familicides in China)
This section of the list of rampage killers contains familicides that occurred in China where at least half of the victims were relatives of the perpetrator or the perpetrator's spouse. Cases with more than one offender are not included.
A rampage killer has been defined as follows:
A rampage involves the (attempted) killing of multiple persons least partly in public space by a single physically present perpetrator using (potentially) deadly weapons in a single event without any cooling-off period.[1]
This list should contain every case with at least one of the following features:
- Rampage killings with 6 or more dead
- In all cases the perpetrator is not counted among those killed or injured.
All abbreviations used in the table are explained below.
Rampage killers
Perpetrator | Date | Year | Location | Province | Killed | Injured | W | Additional Notes | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Ou Yangpu (欧阳普) |
Jan. 1 | 1976 | Zixing | Hunan | 17 |
0 |
M | Committed suicide | [2] |
2. | Liu Aibing, 34* (刘爱兵) |
Dec. 12 | 2009 | Yinshanpai | Hunan | 13 |
1 |
FMA | Sentenced to death and executed | [3] |
3. | Jia Yingmin, 40 (賈英民) |
Oct. 6 | 2000 | Kunlong | Shaanxi | 12 |
0 |
M | Committed suicide | [4] |
4. | Wang Changyi, 30 (王昌义) |
Aug. 1 | 2006 | Mengzi County | Yunnan | 10 |
1 |
M | Committed suicide, Also killed a pig, a dog and a cat |
[5] |
5. | Chai Gongmin, 21 (柴公敏) |
Feb. 12 | 2008 | Baoding | Hebei | 10 |
0 |
M | Sentenced to death | [6] |
6. | Gao Xueqing, 25* | Feb. | 1985 | Henan | Henan | 9 |
? |
MA | Arrested | [7] |
7. | He Xiangyue* (何祥月) |
March 20 | 2005 | Yibin | Sichuan | 9 |
? |
M | Sentenced to death and executed | [8] |
8. | Xu, ---, 34 | Sep. 15 | 1998 | Magui | Guangdong | 7 |
5 |
M | Arrested | [9] |
9. | Feng Zhongyou, 25 (冯忠友) |
Nov. 16 | 2004 | Bohuo | Yunnan | 7 |
1 |
M | Committed suicide | [10] |
10. | Zhu Caifa, 37* (祝才发) |
Feb. 3 | 2010 | Ximenkan | Guizhou | 7 |
0 |
M | Arrested | [11] |
11. | Ma Yongdong, 24* (麻永东) |
Oct. 14 | 2013 | Wenghoug | Ningxia | 7 |
0 |
M | Arrested Killed an unborn child |
[12] |
12. | Wu Shouguo, 38* (武守国) |
Feb. 14 | 2015 | Xiaonangou | Hebei | 7 |
0 |
M | Committed suicide | [13] |
13. | Chen Qian, 29 (陈谦) |
Dec. 27/28 | 2009 | Qinghe County | Hebei | 6 |
5 |
FM | Committed suicide | [14] |
14. | Song Shuangxi | July | 1986 | Hubei | Hubei | 6 |
3 |
M | Committed suicide | [15] |
15. | Wen Tieshuan, 49* (温铁栓) |
Nov. 26 | 2009 | Qingshuihe County | Inner Mongolia | 6 |
1 |
M | Committed suicide | [16] |
16. | Ma Yanshan, 36* (马燕山) |
May 2 | 2002 | Ürümqi | Xinjiang | 6 |
0 |
M | Sentenced to death | [17] |
17. | Huang Wenyi, 34 (黄文义) |
Dec. 28 | 2006 | Foshan | Guangdong | 6 |
0 |
M | Sentenced to death | [18] |
18. | Dong Gang, 29* (董刚) |
Feb. 24 | 2007 | Helong | Jilin | 6 |
0 |
M | Sentenced to death | [19] |
19. | Chen Wenfa, 21* (陈文法) |
Nov. 16 | 2009 | Wumeng | Yunnan | 6 |
0 |
M | Found not guilty by reason of insanity | [20] |
20. | Li Lei, 28* (李磊) |
Nov. 23 | 2009 | Beijing | Beijing | 6 |
0 |
M | Sentenced to death | [21] |
21. | Zhang Erhong, 32* (张二红) |
Feb. 9 | 2010 | Manshan | Hebei | 6 |
0 |
M | Arrested | [22] |
22. | Jiang Shunmao | March 23 | 1981 | Gongcheng | Guangxi | 6 |
? |
E | Committed suicide | [23] |
23. | Li Bingzhang (李炳章) |
March 8 | 2003 | Beiliu City | Guangxi | 6 |
? |
Sentenced to death | [24] |
Abbreviations and footnotes
* – Marks cases where all the victims were relatives of the perpetrator
W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders
- F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots
- M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, stones, or bare hands
- O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks
- A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used
- V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used
- E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used
- P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)
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