User:Lord Gøn/Tian Mingjian incident

The Tian Mingjian incident was an act of mass murder that occurred on September 20, 1994 in Beijing, China, when First Lieutenant Tian Mingjian killed and injured several people at his military base in Tongxian County and afterwards drove towards Jianguomen, where he continued his  shooting spree and indiscriminately fired at people in the streets. Dozens lay dead or wounded before Lt. Tian was finally killed by a sniper.

Being reprimanded after a quarrel with superiors about giving another soldier the permission to return home, Lt. Tian Ming Jian, 31, armed himself and began shooting, killing five soldiers and officers, including the party boss of the camp, and injured at least ten more, before he fled the military base in Tongxian County. While his fellow soldiers were ordered to change their uniforms, in order not to panic the public when they are searching for the deserter, Tian hijacked a jeep and headed towards Beijing. Arriving at Tiananmen Square at 7:20am he jumped out, started shooting people at random and riddled a passing bus with bullets. 17 people were killed, one of them Iranian diplomat Yousef Mohammadi Pishknari, and dozens injured on his trail towards Jianguomen, while police desperatly tried to apprehend him. Eventually Lt. Tian was besieged at Yabao Road and heavy police fire forced him to flee into a dead end, where he was killed by a sniper.