2023-12-13 08:04:06
Bricks fell from the sky while visiting a night market, killing a 28-year-old woman. (Picture/reproduced from Red Star News)
A mainland woman surnamed Lou went to the Wanda Plaza night market on Hongqi Street, Changchun City, Jilin Province in June this year and was hit by a brick thrown from high altitude. Unfortunately, she died. Witnesses revealed that a man had also thrown bricks and drinks bottles a few hours before the incident. The prosecutor later arrested a man surnamed Zhou and found that he had thrown things on the ground more than 10 times in 6 days. He was prosecuted in accordance with the law. The verdict was recently released and Zhou Nan was sentenced to death.
“Red Star News” reported that the victim, Xiao Lou (pseudonym), was a legal worker. He was 28 years old and worked as a legal practitioner in a state-owned enterprise in Beijing after graduating from university. On June 22, Xiao Lou went to Changchun to visit high school friends and stayed at a B&B in Apartment No. 2, Wanda Plaza. Around 10:30 p.m., Xiao Lou went to the night market downstairs to buy food. Within a few minutes of leaving the house, three bricks fell from the sky, one of which hit her forehead. She died after being sent to the hospital.
Video from the scene showed that Xiao Lou fell in front of a stall selling kebabs. Her back was to the apartment building, she was lying face down motionless, and a large pool of blood flowed from her head. The owner of the kebab stall said that this was not the first incident of a high-altitude object thrown from high altitude that day. An hour or two before the incident, the same incident occurred twice. “There were two times before, but no one was hit. It was bricks and bottles, and then someone called the police, who came to the scene.”
Sister Xiao Lou said, “When I heard that something happened to my sister, our family went crazy. My parents are almost 70 years old and have been crying all the time. My sister has been very sensible and outstanding since she was a child. She has a good relationship with her family. Really It’s hard to accept.” The police revealed that the suspect’s family said the suspect had mental illness. “Now his mother has asked for a psychiatric evaluation and is waiting for the results.”
The Changchun City Procuratorate alleged that the defendant Zhou, who was unable to support himself, developed world-weariness and hatred of society, and therefore planned to kill unspecified people on the ground by throwing bricks and other objects multiple times from high-rise buildings. From 21:00 to 23:00 on June 22, Zhou threw 8 bricks at the crowd on the ground at the corridor window and rooftop of an apartment on the 32nd floor of an apartment on Hongqi Street, Chaoyang District, this city, one of which hit the victim’s child. Lou forehead.
After forensic psychiatric evaluation, the defendant Zhou was not mentally ill at the time of the case and was fully capable of criminal responsibility. After the incident, the defendant voluntarily surrendered, and the procuratorate prosecuted him for the crime of endangering public safety by harmful means. The Changchun Intermediate People’s Court pronounced the first instance verdict and Zhou was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life.
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