User:Jzhou9777/A Knife Murder on Pubei Road in Shanghai in 2018

A Knife Murder on Pubei Road in Shanghai in 2018, also termed by the official as “6·28” A Knife Murder on Pubei Road, Huang Yichuan's Intentional homicide , happened on 28 June, 2018 in China, ShanghaiXuhui District Kangjian New Village Street. Of this murder, two boys of the East Campus of Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School died of serious injuries. Another pupil and a parent were injured. After the incident, people from all walks of life care and commemorate the victims, the suspect Huang Yichuan was arrested by the Procuratorate the next day. The prosecutor also began to intervene in the investigation of the case. On December 6, 2018, the first trial of the case was held. It was found that the case was caused by the defendant's hopelessness of life and his revenge on the society. The prosecutor pointed out that Huang Yichuan had been premeditated for a long time but suffered from schizophrenia. On May 23, 2019, The First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai decided that mental illness did not affect his ability to identify and control his own behavior in the case. The first trial imposed the death penalty and deprived his political rights for life. On December 30, 2019, Shanghai Senior People's Court rejected the appeal on Huang Yichuan's appeal ruling, upheld the original judgment and submitted it to the Supreme People's Court for approval.

Course of the event
At 11:31 a.m. on June 28, Xuhui Branch of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a phone call, saying that near the sidewalk of Guilin West Street, Pubei Road, a man with a kitchen knife cut three boys and a female parent. After receiving the alarm, the police went to the scene to take charge. With the help of the people on the scene, they arrested Huang, the criminal suspect, and sent four injured people to the hospital. As of noon on June 28, two injured boys died of invalid rescue, the other boy and his parent were no longer in danger. Xuhui police issued a circular on the case at 13:50 on the same day. According to a number of netizens, the site is near the gate of the West Campus of Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School.

According to the video uploaded by netizens, two boys fell down to the ground after being cut. The wounds bled a lot and the blood even soaked the clothes of the injured. A woman in a black top and a white skirt also had much blood on her face and skirt. She squatted beside one of the children and pressed his neck. There were also blood stains on the surrounding road. Some people used towels to stop the bleeding of the children. A kitchen knife was seen on the ground. Then, the staff of city management and the masses held down the murderer, and a passing air conditioner repairman tied him with a rope ; After the police arrived, the man was controlled with his face down. During the whole process the man did not resist.

It is confirmed that Tan, one of the students, died of central nervous system injury and hemorrhagic shock due to the disconnection of cervical vertebra, cervical spinal cord and vertebral artery caused by the cutting on his neck with sharp instrument; Fei's head, face, left palm, etc. were cut by sharp instrument, which led to craniocerebral opening, left hand disconnection and other injuries, resulting in brain injury combined with hemorrhagic shock and the eventual death. Student Jin and parent Zhang suffered minor head injuries.

Identity of the criminal
According to the examination of the First Branch of Shanghai People's Procuratorate, the criminal suspect Huang Yichuan, male, born in Hunan Province Shaoyang City in 1989, was currently unemployed. He claimed that after a long-term employment failure in many places, he came to Shanghai in early June 2018. Because there was not any hope of his life, he came up with the idea to revenge the society and hence commit the murder. On the morning of June 28, he set out from his hotel, taking a stainless-steel kitchen knife with him. He took a bus to Guilin West Street near the World Foreign Language Primary School, waiting for the opportunity. At about 11 a.m., he saw the students leaving school. Afraid of the security patrol at the school gate, he followed the students and cut at three students and one parent about 130 meters away from the school gate with the knife.

After the incident, his personal information was exposed through Human flesh search engine. According to a screenshot of Huang Yichuan's basic personal information circulated on the Internet, he was born on 3 June, 1989, in Hunan Province Suining County, who used to be the a Grade 07 student in the school of architecture of Hunan University of Science and Technology. Some people confirmed that the man who cut off people was studying with them together at HUST. He had an antisocial tendency when he was a university student. When he graduated from the college, he left threatening messages on Tencent QQ to many students. During the six years since his graduation, he had participated in the Postgraduate Admission Test for many times, but all failed. And his career had not been smooth as well. He had changed his job for more than ten times.

According to a survey conducted by Caixin Online, Huang Yichuan's parents divorced when he was a child. His home is in a building designed for the family of local civil servants in Suining County. And his grandmother Wu has had schizophrenia for decades. In 2012 and 2013, Huang Yichuan failed in the Postgraduate Admission Test twice and repeatedly failed to find a job, but he still concealed the truth from his family and friends, claiming that he had a high income and a perfect life. At the Spring Festival before the crime, Huang's mother found that the son was more and more withdrawn and irritable, and some of his distant relatives also thought that he might have inherited the maternal schizophrenia. In the year before the crime, Huang Yichuan traveled to Xiamen, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai and other cities, visited many kindergartens and primary schools and planned to commit murder, but failed. In the month of the crime, Huang Yichuan took the train from Guangzhou to Shanghai, spending his time mostly hanging out or staying at a youth hostel in Pudong New Area. A few days before the incident, he heard on the radio that the primary school was going to hold a graduation ceremony, so he determined the time and place, and eventually caused the tragedy.

Criminal proceedings
On June 28, 2018, the first branch of Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate and the Xuhui District procuratorate appointed prosecutors to intervene in the case in advance in order to guide the investigation and evidence collection. On June 29, Xuhui District Procuratorate approved the arrest according to the law. On August 14，the first branch of Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate initiated a public prosecution against Huang Yichuan for intentional murder to the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai. On December 6, the case was heard in a court session of the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai, attended by representatives of the National People's Congress, representatives of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, victims' families and more than 50 other people. After the judicial identification, Huang Yichuan was diagnosed with schizophrenia, with the ability of limited criminal responsibility. During the trial, the procuratorate recommended the court to punish him according to the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 18 of the criminal law of the people's Republic of China. However, it is also considered that his motive for killing is extremely sinister, and it is pointed out that he has been planned for a long time carefully, repeatedly, who even specially purchased killing weapons; the criminal method are extremely brutal, the consequences are extremely serious, and the social impact is extremely bad, so the criminal should be severely punished according to law. On the afternoon of that day, the judge announced that the case would be pronounced on certain day.

At 10:00 a.m. on May 23, 2019, the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai issued the first instance judgment on the case. The defendant Huang Yichuan was sentenced to death for intentional homicide and deprived of political rights for life. In the judgment, the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai pointed out that Huang Yichuan had the idea of killing primary school students to vent his anger because he "thought he was being bullied and hurt by others". He had premeditated and prepared serious violence against innocent children, with extremely despicable motives, extremely cruel means, extremely serious consequences of crime and extremely bad social impact. Although Huang Yichuan suffers from schizophrenia and has the ability of limited criminal responsibility, his crime is extremely serious, his personal risk is super high, and his mental illness does not affect his ability to identify and control his behavior in the case, so he had been made a death sentence. After the sentence, the defendant did not appeal in court. According to the reporter, the sentencing on the morning of May 23 lasted only about half an hour, and the defendant appeared very calm. His parents shouted "appeal" after the sentence, but the defendant did not look back at his parents even for a glance.

Later, Huang formally made an appeal. On August 30, 2019, the second instance of the case was open for trial. In the second trial, Huang Yichuan argued that he did not plan to kill people in advance, and that he was committing homicide in a state of insanity. The procuratorial organ believes that the facts of Huang Yichuan's intentional homicide are clear, the applicable law is correct, the trial procedure is legal, and the sentence is appropriate; the appraisal procedure of the appraisal institution is legal, the appraisal materials are sufficient, the appraisal process and methods meet the normative requirements, and the appraisal opinions are complete and clear. Therefore, the reasons for the defender's reappraisal could not be established, and it was suggested that the court of second instance should reject the appeal and maintain its original judgment. At 12 a.m. of that day, the trial of second instance was over. The court decided to choose a time for sentencing. At 14 on December 30, 2019, Shanghai Senior People's Court held a court session to make a public judgment on the appeal case, ruled to reject the appeal, upheld the original judgment that Huang Yichuan was sentenced to death for intentional homicide and deprived of his political rights for life, and reported to the Supreme People's court for approval according to law.