On August 4, 2010, a group of police officers, dressed in riot suits and armed with guns, slowly approached a green taxi parked on the side of the road. In the taxi sat a 17-year-old boy wearing white short sleeves and blue jeans.
He had a knife in his hand, and there was still blood on the knife that had not had time to wipe away. He clutched the knife in one hand and the car door in the other, leaning forward slightly, and looking fiercely at the police officers who came toward him.
After a fierce fight, the police managed to capture the 17-year-old. This teenager's name was Bai Zhongjie.
What had he done to get so many police officers to come and arrest him?
Bai Zhongjie was born on September 26, 1993 in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. His parents were both from the administrative village of Yangmansui in Jinbao Township, Zhenyuan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.
Jinbao Township has rugged terrain and few arable land resources, and the economic and agricultural development of the entire area is relatively backward. In order to get more development opportunities, many local people choose to go out to work.
Bai Zhongjie's parents also chose the same development path after getting married, and the couple came to Dongguan, Guangdong Province, to work, and they would return to their hometown during the New Year.
On September 26, 1993, Bai Zhongjie gave birth, which was the first child of the couple, and both of them loved him very much.
In order to give his children better living conditions, Bai Zhongjie's father worked harder, and his mother also wanted to quickly raise his body and make more money to pave the way for the future of his children.
However, at that time, Bai Zhongjie was too small, and he always needed the company of adults, and in desperation, the husband and wife could only send the three-month-old Bai Zhongjie back to his hometown in Guizhou to take care of his grandparents.
In this way, Bai Zhongjie became a left-behind child. Since his parents were not around, his grandparents loved him extra much, and no matter what Bai Zhongjie wanted, his grandparents would try to be satisfied.
Only every new year during the New Year, Bai Zhongjie can see his parents. Young Bai Zhongjie looks forward to the arrival of the New Year every time, so that his parents will return.
Every New Year's Day, his father would pick him up and carry him on his shoulders. His mother would buy him all kinds of gifts and hold him in her arms, something that his grandparents couldn't give him.
But the happy days are always very short, and at the end of the year, his parents will leave him again. Bai Zhongjie spent 3 years in the cycle of reunion and separation.
In fact, Bai Zhongjie's parents also miss their son very much, but in order to provide better living conditions for their children, they have to do so. When Bai Zhongjie was three years old, his parents finally could not restrain their love for their son and took him to Dongguan, Guangdong.
After going to his parents, Bai Zhongjie was very happy and became more dependent on his parents. Three-year-old Bai Zhongjie has not yet reached the age of kindergarten, and his parents are not assured that their children are at home alone, so they will take Bai Zhongjie with them every day when they go to work.
At that time, many children of the same age were also brought to the workplace by their parents. Bai Zhongjie had both the care of his parents and the company of his friends, and he was very happy and happy at that time.
However, one day half a year later, a little friend who was half a year older than Bai Zhongjie accidentally rolled down the stairs while playing and had an accident. Since then, the boss has not allowed employees to bring their children to work.
Out of helplessness, Bai Zhongjie's parents could only send him back to his hometown again, and it became a state that he could only see his parents in the New Year.
Until Bai Zhongjie was five years old, his parents wanted him to get a better education opportunity, so they took him to the side and let him attend kindergarten in Dongguan.
Two years later, in June 2000, Bai Zhongjie was going to go to primary school, but because the matter of school registration was not handled well, Bai Zhongjie had no way to attend primary school in Dongguan and could only return to Guizhou again.
Since then, Bai Zhongjie has been studying in his hometown, and his parents will occasionally take him to spend the summer vacation. Because his grandparents were very doting on Bai Zhongjie, he was very naughty since he was a child.
Later, Bai Zhongjie was sent back to his hometown in Guizhou by his parents several times in succession, making him think that he did so because his parents did not like him. After this, Bai Zhongjie was even more stubborn, often fighting with his friends.
After returning to his hometown for primary school, Bai Zhongjie thought that he had been "abandoned" by his parents again, and he had no desire to study well, and lived a life of living in school every day.
Watching their children's grades getting worse and worse, Bai Zhongjie's parents finally decided to quit their jobs in Dongguan and return to their hometown in Guizhou to take care of Bai Zhongjie.
Under the company and care of his parents, Bai Zhongjie's academic performance has slowly improved, and in June 2006, he was admitted to a good local middle school, and his parents were proud of him.
But before long, his parents decided to start a small business in their hometown, so they returned to a state of busy work all day, Bai Zhongjie once again felt that he was "abandoned", and his grades fell again.
Later, Bai Zhongjie's parents disagreed on business, the contradictions became more and more large, and finally the feelings between the parents were worn away in the day-to-day contradictions, and the family quarreled all the time. Looking at his parents who were constantly arguing, Bai Zhongjie was at a loss inside.
It was at this time that online games rose to prominence and soon became popular across the country. Many discerning businessmen seized the opportunity, and Internet cafes of all sizes began to appear.
Although Bai Zhongjie's hometown is relatively backward in the economy, this wave of enthusiasm still blows in, and soon, various styles of Internet cafes have sprung up like mushrooms.
Once, Bai Zhongjie accepted the invitation of his classmates and came to an Internet café after school. Then, he liked all kinds of games on the Internet, and he felt that he had found a home on the Internet, so he began to indulge in the Internet and could not extricate himself.
Over the years, his parents gave Bai Zhongjie a lot of pocket money. In the past, Bai Zhongjie would only buy toys and snacks, and the cost was not large, so he saved a lot of money.
Now, these pocket money have been taken out by Bai Zhongjie to use online or buy game point cards, and he has even begun to ask his parents for money under various pretexts. His parents were busy with business and relaxed their care and discipline of Bai Zhongjie.
Things got worse and worse, and Bai Zhongjie didn't want to go to school more and more, so he began to skip class and go to an Internet café. Of course, Bai Zhongjie did not want to go home, so he used the excuse of writing homework at school and went home late.
It wasn't until the school noticed the abnormality and called Bai Zhongjie's parents that his parents learned that the child had been playing in the Internet café recently and had not studied well. In a fit of rage, Bai Zhongjie's parents beat him up hard.
After being beaten, Bai Zhongjie's attitude became even worse, he simply did not go home all day and all night, and even Chinese New Year's Eve he spent time in the Internet café.
Such a young and a little moneyy Bai Zhongjie naturally attracted the attention of the socially undesirable youth in Internet cafes. These undesirable young people are all people who have not studied or worked after graduating from junior high school.
They stay in Internet cafes all day playing games, and when they have no money, they go to the school to collect protection fees to "make money". Later, they saw that Bai Zhongjie often appeared alone in the Internet café, so they consciously went to talk, and often sent some snacks and drinks to Bai Zhongjie.
Although Bai Zhongjie is naughty, he is very moralistic. Soon, he recognized this group of young people in society as the eldest brother and mixed with them. Because Bai Zhongjie has a little money on his body and often contracts their internet costs, this group of social youth is very "appreciative" of him.
Under their leadership, Bai Zhongjie not only learned to smoke and drink, but also learned to collect protection fees in various places such as schools and railway stations.
In June 2010, after graduating from junior high school, because Bai Zhongjie's grades were so poor, no local high school was willing to admit him. Bai Zhongjie also had no intention of learning, and began to mix wholeheartedly with the "big brothers".
This group of people often wandered near schools and railway stations, and were later reported by enthusiastic citizens, and the police repeatedly took them to the police station for ideological education.
After more times, the boss of this group felt troublesome, so he decided to go to other places to "make a lot of money". His proposal was agreed to by some people, who bought several train tickets with protection fees and embarked on the train to Shenzhen.
Bai Zhongjie is a solid supporter of this "big brother", and naturally wants to share happiness and hardship with the boss, so he did not tell his parents and grandparents, and quietly followed the "boss" to Shenzhen.
In July 2010, after coming to Shenzhen, they returned to their old business and began to collect protection fees again. With few men, the group decided to act separately.
Bai Zhongjie was 17 years old at the time, looking relatively immature, and his figure was also thin, and when he went to collect protection fees, many people ignored him, and when they met grumpy passers-by, they would even beat him up.
As a result, Bai Zhongjie asked for very little money every time. Seeing that Bai Zhongjie was so "useless", this group of social youth immediately turned their faces and did not recognize people, and beat him up fiercely.
Since the protection fee could not sustain the group of people, they began to move their minds. On July 12, 2010, the boss of the gang gave Bai Zhongjie a knife and asked Bai Zhongjie to rob the black car with them.
He told Bai Zhongjie to take out the knife to scare him if the driver resisted. At night, a group of five of them got into a black car on the side of the road and casually reported a destination.
When the car passed through the remote section, they threatened the driver to hand over all the money he had. The driver saw that Bai Zhongjie was relatively young, so he did not pay attention to him, but concentrated on dealing with several other social youths.
Bai Zhongjie saw that the driver had been fiercely resisting, and under the impulse, he took out a knife and stabbed the driver in the abdomen. The driver fell to the ground with his wounds covered, and the others rushed forward to snatch the driver's wallet and ran away with the panicked Bai Zhongjie.
In the end, the driver died of excessive blood loss, the first murder committed by Bai Zhongjie. After the killing, Bai Zhongjie was very scared in his heart, and his legs kept trembling.
After the boss saw it, he rushed to comfort Bai Zhongjie and said, "You are now a minor, it will not be good to kill people, and you will not be convicted of your crime if the police arrest you."
Hearing that he would not be punished, Bai Zhongjie's heart slowly settled down, which made him more and more indifferent to human life. After that, Bai Zhongjie embarked on a more fierce and cold-blooded path.
The group bought train tickets with money stolen from the black car driver and returned to Guizhou overnight. When they returned to Guizhou, they did not stop there, but chose to continue to do evil.
They successively robbed and killed people in Guiyang, Anshun, Bijie and other places in Guizhou Province in the same way.
From July 12, 2010 to July 25, 2010, in just 13 days, they committed six crimes, killed nine people in a row, and robbed a total of 190,000 yuan worth of property.
After the incident, on August 2, 2010, the Ministry of Public Security issued an A-class arrest warrant for Bai Zhongjie, and offered a reward of 50,000 yuan, and many people actively provided Bai Zhongjie's whereabouts. He became the youngest Class A wanted man issued by the Ministry of Public Security since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
After the arrest warrant was issued, Bai Zhongjie was quickly captured, and everyone in the gang fell into the net. Later, after a court trial, several adult principals were sentenced to death. Because Bai Zhongjie was under the age of eighteen at the time, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and could not be commuted.
Throughout Bai Zhongjie's life, in fact, he was destroyed by his parents, who did not create a healthy and stable childhood for him, resulting in his psychological distortion and serious character defects.
When the Bai Zhongjie murder case was transmitted back to his hometown, his grandparents and grandparents could not believe it anyway, and in their impression, Bai Zhongjie had always been a well-behaved and sensible good child.
Their parents could not accept this reality either, insisting that someone else must have coerced their son to do so.
In December 2011, a year after Bai Zhongjie was imprisoned, his parents gave birth to another child. They are very strict with this child, not only paying attention to his academic performance, but also paying attention to cultivating his thoughts and character.
During this period, Bai Zhongjie's parents had visited Bai Zhongjie in prison, and in prison, he still did not realize his mistake, and felt that this kind of matter would be enough for a few days, and there was no need to sentence him to life imprisonment, let alone that his party should be sentenced to death.
His parents were very sad and completely dead-hearted, and they did not see the child again.
In October 2020, Bai Zhongjie's grandmother died at the age of 69 in yangmansui administrative village in Jinbao Township, where the Bai Zhongjie case has once again aroused heated discussion, and people are no longer discussing Bai Zhongjie's criminal psychology, but the painful experience of Bai Zhongjie's family over the years.
According to a close friend of Bai Zhongjie's father, although many years have passed since Bai Zhongjie's murder case, his parents are still often in grief, and they regret that they did not teach their son well, let him go astray, and endanger society.
In June 2021, guizhou satellite TV rule of law channel conducted a 34-minute video interview with Bai Zhongjie's parents, through which we can know that Bai Zhongjie's brother has been in the 5th grade of primary school, the child's academic performance is very good, and often takes the award home. At school, he often helps his classmates, and at home he will also take the initiative to help his parents do housework, and people around him praise him for being smart and sensible, and Bai Zhongjie's parents love this child very much and are proud.
Bai Zhongjie's parents hope that their children can become useful people to society, and must not follow in the footsteps of their brothers. I sincerely hope that they have come out of the shadows of the past and embraced a new life.
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