Man in school attack gets death
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A MAN who killed two students in a knife attack outside a primary school in Shanghai last year has been sentenced to death.
Another boy and a parent were injured in the attack in June.
Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court said that although psychiatric tests showed Huang Yichuan had schizophrenia and limited criminal capacity, it didn’t affect the case because his crime was extremely serious and was not influenced by his mental state at the time.
The court said that Huang believed he had been insulted and hurt by others, and came up with the idea of killing children to vent his anger. Between March and October 2017, he went to several cities, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, to take pictures of kindergartens and primary schools as potential targets.
Eventually, the court said, he targeted pupils at the Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School.
On the morning of June 28, he waited near the school for his chance. Around 11:30am, he followed three students, surnamed Tan, Fei and Jin, and a parent, Zhang, for about 130 meters from the school’s south gate before taking out a knife and attacking all four of them.
Tan, who was stabbed in the neck, and Fei, who suffered head injuries, both died.
Jin and Zhang sustained injuries to the head and other parts of the body but they were not life-threatening. Huang was caught by the school’s security guards and members of the public soon after the attack.
The court said Huang had planned the attack on innocent children and his methods had been extremely brutal.
Under certain circumstances, people suffering from mental illness could be exempt from criminal responsibility and receive a lenient sentence. But it was not so in this case.
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