Judges' shooter planned rampage
By Li Xinran and Wang Xiang |
June 4, 2010, Friday
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A MAN who allegedly killed three judges and injured three more before killing himself in a Hunan Province court office had been planning the attack for more than a week.
Zhu Jun, head of a security squad of a China Post branch, barged into an office in Lingling District Court on Tuesday, shooting three judges to death and injured three court officials with a submachine gun and two pistols.
Zhu's colleagues in the security squad said he was a bad shooter who never cared about arms. But last week Zhu asked the dead shot of the team to teach him how to change a magazine for another round of shooting.
The colleague said he thinks Zhu was planning the attack even then.
Other workers at the Lingling post office said Zhu was able to easily get the three guns because he was strict with his subordinates and everyone was afraid of him.
Hunan Police are now investigating the squad's three firearms keepers for dereliction of duty.
All Zhu's neighbors said they don't know who he was. A colleague who has been close to Zhu surnamed Lei said he never thought Zhu could have done such thing because Zhu appeared to be a gentle man.
Media reports quoted an unnamed insider saying Zhu had left a death note before the attack. But the note was not made public.
Zhu's motive was still unknown yesterday but he was discovered to have terminal cancer and had filed two civil complaints at Lingling District Court.
Though the court supported him in a divorce suit against his wife and a compensation demand against a developer over property dispute, Zhu was not satisfied with the endings and thought he was hurt by the results, a colleague of his disclosed.
Zhu thought the compensation in the property dispute was insufficient, the court spent too much time on the issue, and the court failed to let him acquire the certificate of real estate ownership, according to a local media report.
Zhu divorced his wife in 2003 and was diagnosed with cancer of the nasal part of the pharynx in 2006.
These were foremost among a number of unhappy experiences that made him pessimistic, said Zhu's colleagues.
Zhu Jun, head of a security squad of a China Post branch, barged into an office in Lingling District Court on Tuesday, shooting three judges to death and injured three court officials with a submachine gun and two pistols.
Zhu's colleagues in the security squad said he was a bad shooter who never cared about arms. But last week Zhu asked the dead shot of the team to teach him how to change a magazine for another round of shooting.
The colleague said he thinks Zhu was planning the attack even then.
Other workers at the Lingling post office said Zhu was able to easily get the three guns because he was strict with his subordinates and everyone was afraid of him.
Hunan Police are now investigating the squad's three firearms keepers for dereliction of duty.
All Zhu's neighbors said they don't know who he was. A colleague who has been close to Zhu surnamed Lei said he never thought Zhu could have done such thing because Zhu appeared to be a gentle man.
Media reports quoted an unnamed insider saying Zhu had left a death note before the attack. But the note was not made public.
Zhu's motive was still unknown yesterday but he was discovered to have terminal cancer and had filed two civil complaints at Lingling District Court.
Though the court supported him in a divorce suit against his wife and a compensation demand against a developer over property dispute, Zhu was not satisfied with the endings and thought he was hurt by the results, a colleague of his disclosed.
Zhu thought the compensation in the property dispute was insufficient, the court spent too much time on the issue, and the court failed to let him acquire the certificate of real estate ownership, according to a local media report.
Zhu divorced his wife in 2003 and was diagnosed with cancer of the nasal part of the pharynx in 2006.
These were foremost among a number of unhappy experiences that made him pessimistic, said Zhu's colleagues.
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