Son charged with killing dad, hammering a controlling mom

By Tom Qian | January 23, 2009, Friday |

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A SHANGHAI man returning from overseas study has been arrested for allegedly killing his father with a hammer and seriously injuring his mother after they refused to accept the woman he planned to marry, a newspaper reported yesterday.

After beating his father to death and his mother into critical condition, the man, 24, tried to cover up his actions, according to a Shanghai Morning Post report.

Police arrested him later, and he confessed, the report said. He now faces murder charges.

While studying in Australia, he met a woman online from Zhejiang Province. They played games together, chatted through QQ and MSN, the report said.

In June, he went to meet the girl in Zhejiang Province immediately after returning from Australia and they fell in love.

He returned to Shanghai and a short time later brought the woman to a five-star hotel in the city.

A few days later, he introduced her to his parents, who did not like the fact that the woman was from an ordinary family from outside Shanghai, and they opposed the relationship, the report said.

The man continued to see her without telling his parents and quarreled with them when they found out.

During an argument in September, his father became very emotional, took out a hammer and said if his son wanted to marry the girl, he would kill himself, the report said.

His mother rushed into the room crying, trying to persuade her son to give up the idea of marrying the woman.

The man allegedly grabbed the hammer and hit his mother on the back of the head, the report said. His father called relatives for help while his mother cried: "Even if you killed me, I won't agree to your marriage," according to the report.

The young man then beat both parents with the hammer until his father was dead and his mother was unconscious.

Metro

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Son charged with killing dad, hammering a controlling mom

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