On June 22, 2013, a man went on a

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. Six people died and four others were injured. The perpetrator allegedly beat to death a coworker at the Guangyu

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company in Shanghai's Baoshan District, and then shot to death one person in

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. The perpetrator shot and killed one person in Baoshan, and then returned to the fine chemical company where he shot to death three more people before being apprehended. The perpetrator, 62-year-old Fan Jieming, was sentenced to death and executed in 2016.

Details

The attacker beat a colleague to death at the Guangyu

company in the Baoshan District of the city. He retrieved a

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that had been hidden in his dormitory, and then asked a taxi cab driver to take him to Pudong District. When the cab stopped in Pudong, the attacker shot the driver to death and drove the vehicle back to Baoshan. In Baoshan, he shot and killed a

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who was guarding the entrance to a

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and stole his gun. The suspect then returned to the factory and shot dead three more people, including a manager who may have also been one of the factory's owners.China shooting spree ends with six dead
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Perpetrator

The perpetrator was 62-year-old Fan Jieming, the chemical company's security manager and a military veteran. According to Shanghai police, the rampage may have been motivated by an economic dispute. On 29 June 2015, Fan was convicted and sentenced to

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for six counts of

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, robbery, and robbery of firearms. He was executed in June 2016.

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