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Court bloodbath: police query gun officials
By Wang Xiang |
June 2, 2010, Wednesday
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POLICE are investigating three China Post security officials who lent a submachine gun and two pistols to a man who shot dead three judges and hurt three more in a court in central China's Hunan Province yesterday.
Gunman Zhu Jun, head of a security squad at a China Post office in Lingling District, shot himself after the bloodbath in Lingling District Court in Yongzhou City about 10:05am yesterday, reported today's Oriental Morning Post.
His three subordinates were being investigated for dereliction of duty. Bullets and guns must be stored separately, and only officers on escort missions can check the guns out with the permission of at least two officials.
But Zhu took the guns and 40 bullets with ease by claiming he needed to have the guns examined, the report said.
Police investigation found that Zhu was a cancer patient who has been suicidal and depressed after he divorced his wife three years ago.
Lingling District Court handled a property case of Zhu's three years ago. Though the court ruled in favor of Zhu, supporting all his appeals, he was still not satisfied. Police said that might be a motive for his shooting rampage, the report said.
Xinhua news agency quoted Zhu's family as saying he held a grudge against the court because he felt its judges unjustly handled property division in his divorce case.
The three injured court staffers were still in hospital, two in serious condition.
It was reported that this case was the first shooting in a Chinese court since 1949. Security measures at the court were also being questioned, but an official said court security was tight, the report said.
Gunman Zhu Jun, head of a security squad at a China Post office in Lingling District, shot himself after the bloodbath in Lingling District Court in Yongzhou City about 10:05am yesterday, reported today's Oriental Morning Post.
His three subordinates were being investigated for dereliction of duty. Bullets and guns must be stored separately, and only officers on escort missions can check the guns out with the permission of at least two officials.
But Zhu took the guns and 40 bullets with ease by claiming he needed to have the guns examined, the report said.
Police investigation found that Zhu was a cancer patient who has been suicidal and depressed after he divorced his wife three years ago.
Lingling District Court handled a property case of Zhu's three years ago. Though the court ruled in favor of Zhu, supporting all his appeals, he was still not satisfied. Police said that might be a motive for his shooting rampage, the report said.
Xinhua news agency quoted Zhu's family as saying he held a grudge against the court because he felt its judges unjustly handled property division in his divorce case.
The three injured court staffers were still in hospital, two in serious condition.
It was reported that this case was the first shooting in a Chinese court since 1949. Security measures at the court were also being questioned, but an official said court security was tight, the report said.
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