Last time, I told about a murder that happened on a fishing boat, the murderer was a 15-year-old fisherman's son, and the victim was also a minor born in a fisherman's family. (Related links: Major Case Records No. 12: Blood stained cabin, a suspicious fingerprint makes the murderer appear)
The case I am going to talk about today is still a homicide between minors. Moreover, this case has two similarities with the above case: First, the victim is also a fisherman's child. Second, the murderer was also only 15 years old.
The difference is that the victim and the perpetrator in this case are classmates.
What is the reason for such a bloody tragedy between classmates?
Blood stained polder
Wuhu is the second largest city in Anhui, located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River runs from west to east to the sea, but in the Wuhu section it obviously turns a big bend, becoming a north-south direction, and flowing towards Nanjing on the north side of Wuhu Lake.
Originating from the Southern Anhui Mountains, the Qingyi River flows into the Yangtze River in Wuhu from east to west, dividing the urban area of Wuhu into two areas, the south of the city and the north of the city.
The starting point of the Great Turn of the Yangtze River in Wuhu is located in the south of Wuhu, where there is now a "squirrel town". Friends who have eaten "three squirrels" nuts are not difficult to guess who invested in this characteristic town. However, tourists may not necessarily know the original name of this area: Huanggang Town.
After the end of the Flood Control of the Yangtze River in 1998, the town of Shugang, which has a rather arduous flood prevention task every year, has ushered in a new opportunity for immigrants to build a town. Farmers have moved to the new immigrant district in the Nanyijiang district of Wuhu City, and their children have also entered a middle school in the new district. I won't mention the name of the school here.
Map of the area where the crime occurred today
The two protagonists of this case, Xiao Qian and Xiao Liu, are both students of this middle school, and at the time of the 2005 crime, they were classmates of the second (1st) class of the school. Their parents, who had been farmers who made a living fishing and farming in the town of Huanggang, had become new immigrants to the city.
Although Xiao Qian and Xiao Liu are classmates, they are not good, and some small frictions often occur. After the incident, a number of students confirmed to the police that on the afternoon of April 11, 2005, Xiao Liu kicked Xiao Qian in public in the classroom, slapped Xiao Qian, and encouraged Xiao Xia and other students to insult Xiao Qian.
16 years ago, the term school bullying was not well known, but in later indictments from the procuratorate, prosecutors described Xiao Liu's use of the word "beating" for Xiao Qian's behavior.
This day is the first Monday after the Qingming Festival, and the rainy and rainy weather makes Xiao Qian's damp heart ferment the resentment of waiting for revenge.
On the way home from school afterwards, Xiao Qian first met Xiao Yang, a classmate who usually got along well. When he told Xiao Yang about the beating by Xiao Liu, Xiao Yang naturally stood by the side of his good friend and said something, but this remark obviously did not play a role in extinguishing the anger in Xiao Qian's heart, and Xiao Qian said that he would seek revenge on Xiao Liu at night. As the two walked past a construction site, Xiao Qian stumbled upon a hammer that had been forgotten by the workers and picked it up and carried it in his arms.
They walked all the way home along the flood control polder, but unexpectedly met Xiao Liu, who came home from school. "The enemy is extremely red when they see each other", Xiao Qian immediately went forward to scold Xiao Liu: "Just now in the classroom, why did you beat me?" ”
The two quarreled a few words on the polder, and Xiao Liu seemed to have no intention of fighting, holding up an umbrella and walking in the direction of home. At this time, the angry Xiao Qian had lost his mind, and chased after Xiao Liu's umbrella with his left hand and pulled out the nail hammer from his arms with his right hand. At this time, Xiao Liu just turned back, and Xiao Qian immediately swung the nail hammer and smashed it towards Xiao Liu's head.
A sharp pain made Xiao Liu instinctively throw the umbrella and cover the top of his head with his arms, but he could not block Xiao Qian's subsequent heavy hammers, and finally he was knocked to the ground.
Xiao Yang, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, did not dare to come close at all, and was already scared to leave the scene. And Xiao Qian looked at Xiao Liu who was knocked to the ground, still felt incomprehensible, and used a nail hammer to hit Xiao Liu's head after falling to the ground and slammed it many times.
Blood began to flow outward from Xiao Liu's head, staining the rain-soaked ground red and staining Xiao Qian's wet pants and socks. But Xiao Qian was not in a hurry to leave, he took out a signature pen and used the tip of the pen to stab Xiao Liu's neck fiercely...
After the tie, Xiao Qian fled the scene. But he didn't run far, and he turned back and dragged Xiao Liu into the Luhua Pond not far from the polder. After doing all this, Xiao Qian fled to Xiao Yang's house to change his pants and socks, and then carried them out and threw them into the rubble pile by the river.
Xiao Qian was born in 1990, the year he brutally killed his classmate Xiao Liu, at the age of 15.
Sentenced to 15 years in prison
Little Money is on trial here
In April, The days in Wuhu are long and the nights are short, and the sun does not go down until more than six o'clock in the evening. The scene where Xiao Qian argues with Xiao Liu by the river and commits murder is not only witnessed by Xiao Yang, but also witnesses on the balcony of the adjacent community, including classmates who know them.
A few hours later, an elder of the Xiaoqian family learned of the incident and felt that the situation was serious, so he used his mobile phone to report to the police. That night, Xiao Qian was arrested by the police.
Xiao Liu's parents learned of their son's accident and hurried to the scene of the accident. When everyone salvaged Xiao Liu face down in the Luhua Pond, Xiao Liu had no vital signs. Later, according to forensic medical identification, the cause of death of the victim Xiao Liu was drowning after severe head injury.
On July 20, 2005, the Wuhu Municipal People's Procuratorate filed a public indictment with the Wuhu Intermediate People's Court against Xiao Qian for intentional homicide. In the course of the litigation, Xiao Liu's parents filed an attached civil lawsuit with the court as the plaintiff in the attached civil lawsuit, demanding compensation for economic losses of about 249,000 yuan. On 17 August 2005, the court heard the case in closed court.
In court, Xiao Qian confessed to the facts of the crime alleged by the public prosecution. His defender believes that Xiao Qian's act of killing was an impulse and vent that broke out by the victim Xiao Liu's bullying, and that the words and behavior of his classmate Xiao Yang caused him to have a misunderstanding and wrong understanding, and that Xiao Qian was under 15 years old when he committed the crime, and should be given a mitigated or mitigated punishment according to law. After the crime occurs, it is good to be able to truthfully confess the criminal act committed by oneself and admit guilt, and it has discretionary circumstances to give a lenient punishment.
After trial, the court held that the defendant Xiao Qian only had a small dispute with the victim Xiao Liu in his daily life, so he had the idea of revenge, struck the victim Xiao Liu with an iron hammer, causing him to suffer severe head injury, and dragged him to the pond to cause him to drown, deliberately and illegally depriving others of their lives, and his behavior has constituted the crime of intentional homicide, and the consequences are serious. The public prosecution organ's allegations that the facts and evidence are established, and this court supports them. Defendant Xiao Qian, who was under the age of 16 at the time of committing the crime, shall be given a mitigated or mitigated punishment in accordance with law, and the defender's defense opinion is established and adopted by this court. The defender submitted that the defendant Xiao Qian's conduct was caused by the misleading intention of the witness Xiao Yang, but there was no evidence to prove it, so the defense reason could not be established and was not accepted. The defendant's petty cash behavior causes the victim to die, and his legally-designated representative shall compensate in accordance with law. The court supported the plaintiff's claim for compensation totaling about 190,000 yuan for medical expenses, funeral expenses, death compensation, lost work expenses, etc., which were claimed by the plaintiff in the attached civil lawsuit, and the court did not support the excess of the above expenses and the claim for 50,000 yuan of mental consolation money because it did not comply with the law. Accordingly, the judgment is as follows:
1. Defendant Xiao Qian commits intentional homicide and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 15 years. (The sentence is calculated from the date of sentencing.) Where the sentence is taken into custody prior to enforcement, one day of detention is offset by one day of the sentence, that is, the sentence of defendant Qian Cheng begins on April 12, 2005 and ends on April 11, 2020. )
2. The defendant in the attached civil lawsuit compensates the plaintiff in the attached civil lawsuit for economic losses amounting to more than RMB 190,000.
3. A hammer and a hammer that commits a crime shall be confiscated.
In response to the first-instance judgment, Xiao Qian and his parents expressed dissatisfaction and appealed. On December 12, 2005, the Anhui Provincial Higher People's Court rendered a final ruling rejecting the appeal and upholding the original judgment.
The second year of the first year phenomenon
Little Money used to serve a prison sentence here
After the verdict took effect, Xiao Qian was escorted from the Wuhu Detention Center to serve his sentence at the Anhui Provincial Juvenile Correctional Facility on Huanhu East Road in Hefei City, the only place of custody in Anhui to hold juvenile offenders for rehabilitation.
The author recently learned from a ruling issued by the Hefei Intermediate People's Court that Xiao qian was released from prison around May Day in December 2007, December 2009, December 2011 and April 2014.
Xiao Qian's ability to obtain multiple commutations shows that he has performed well in prison. He was 24 years old when he was released from prison, and he was still very young, but I hope he has changed his past mistakes and started a new life.
What touched me quite much was that half a year after Xiao Qian was released from prison, a vicious incident of a 15-year-old boy brutally killing a minor occurred in Wuwei County (now renamed Wuwei City) under the jurisdiction of Wuhu City. (Related links: Major Case Records No. 12: Blood-stained cabin, a suspicious fingerprint makes the murderer appear) This can not help but trigger the author's thinking and worry about the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency at the age of fourteen or fifteen.
Some psychologists refer to the predilection and frequency of juvenile delinquency at the age of fourteen or fifteen as the second year of junior high, because most children in this age group are in the second year of junior high school.
Why are children in the second year of junior high school prone to problems?
Some education experts have pointed out that when children enter the first year of junior high school, they have just entered an unfamiliar environment, and they have not yet completely broken through the mode of being bound in their childhood, and they are still relatively obedient on the whole. In the second year of junior high school, the inner budding of adolescence becomes stronger, and the sense of independence and equality is significantly enhanced. The awakening of sexual consciousness and the emergence of secondary sexual characteristics have given children in the second grade a desire to interact with the opposite sex, and the bad culture such as pornography and violence in film and television and electronic products is also the most likely to have a profound impact on them. Moreover, the difficulty and pressure of the second grade of the schoolwork have increased significantly, the physics class has been added, the original primary school and the first grade are still relatively stable academic performance, to the second grade began to be full of turmoil and differentiation, the score theory hero education method often makes the grades of the children have obvious frustration, self-esteem is often hit. In the second stage of the junior high school, there is no urgency to meet the middle school entrance examination in the third year of junior high school, and schools, teachers and parents often tend to ignore the fluctuations and hidden dangers in the psychology and emotions of the second grade children.
An authoritative survey shows that compared with the students of the first and third grades, the second grade students are relatively prone to rebellious, blind, and susceptible to external influences, and their emotions are more likely to be agitated and irritable, the polarization of grades is common, and the violations of discipline and violations are frequent. Therefore, the second stage of junior high school is not only a dangerous period for the growth of adolescents, but also a critical period for education.
Xiao Qian killed Xiao Liu in 2005, when the two had just entered the second semester of junior high school.
I don't know if the small money after his release from prison has returned to the location of the crime, if he goes there, he will definitely find that the deserted stalls along the Yangtze River in the past have become a picturesque Shili Jiangwan Park, and the high-rise buildings along the river that were originally mostly farmland have long become the highly sought after riverside plate in the Real Estate Industry of Wuhu.
The highly sought after riverside plate in Wuhu
However, in 2005, as the southern gate of Wuhu City, this area belonged to the urban-rural integration department, and the middle school where Xiao Qian and Xiao Liu were located could not be compared with some famous schools in the urban area at that time, whether it was the strength of teachers or the quality of students. Moreover, their parents are fishermen and farmers who have just "washed their feet and gone ashore", the level of education is not high, shouldering the family burden of "old and old and small", and they have witnessed the huge difference between urban and rural areas, running for life on the edge of the city every day, and the education of children is relatively simple and rude, and there is no time to take care of and do not know much about the "second dangerous period" that children are facing.
Nowadays, the middle school where Xiao Qian and Xiao Liu are located has become a branch of a secondary school affiliated to a university in Anhui, whether it is hardware and software, or the quality of teachers and students, it has long been different from the past.
However, even in the ever-changing new era, the "second year phenomenon" should still attract the attention of schools, teachers and parents. Although the author has not heard of the vicious occurrence of murder by junior high school students around me, there have been unexpected incidents such as campus bullying and students' lives. In January and June this year, the author learned that in Wuhu Wanlan District and the Sanshan District, which has just been assigned to Yijiang District, there were emergencies in which fifteen or sixteen-year-old middle school students took their lives, one of the boys who wanted to take their lives was saved by firefighters, and the other girl who was born lightly left us forever!
At this point, you may think I have gone astray and stop here.
In fact, in the second half of this case record, I dedicate a chapter to discuss the "first two phenomena", that is, to arouse your attention and thinking about this phenomenon. If you have children at home and around you who are or are about to enter the second year of junior high school, please give them more care and care!