On February 5, 2015, in a civilian mansion on the outskirts of New York, a Chinese named Tan Liang was working in the house, when suddenly a gunshot rang out, tan Liang felt a sharp pain in his chest, followed by a second shot, a third shot...
The suspect showed a satisfied smile, wiped the tears of excitement with his hand, and took a closer look, the murderer was actually Tan Liang's son, Tan Liang had a particularly good relationship with his son's father and son, and the son often bragged to his classmates about showing off his father, and listed his father as a sign of his life.
What was the reason for a promising child to kill his father with his own hands?
Suspected of domestic violence
On January 28, 2015, the 911 Alarm Center in New York, USA, received an alarm call from a woman named Tan Qing, who claimed to have been attacked, and the police quickly came to the scene after receiving the news.
After the investigation, it was found that the perpetrator was actually the husband of the reporter, Tan Liang, and the police instantly controlled Tan Liang and told Tan Qing that Tan Liang could be prosecuted for intentional injury, and finally under consultation, Tan Liang left home trembling and went to another place to spend the night, and the police also left.
In fact, this family that most people envy is not happy, in the past 12 years, Tan Liang's family has called dozens of 911 police calls, interestingly, most of these calls come from the male owner Tan Liang.
Tan Liang had previously called the police several times, saying that he had been attacked by his wife, and her wife said that if he was still present at the home, he would call the police to lie that he had been abused.
Another time, the eldest son brought his friend to the house to play the game console, but because the noise was too loud, Tan Liang chose to call the police, and told the police that his head was injured by the eldest son, the police came to the scene to investigate, under the coordination of the police, the son and friends finally left the house, and the matter was over.
Social elite
Tan Liang and his wife Tan Qing were very affectionate at first, and the two never had any friction and lived a happy and happy life in Canada.
Tan Liang, who worked for Kodak and Corning, personally founded a manufacturing company in 2003, mainly making sensors for tablets and cameras, and the business became bigger and bigger, and the turnover was booming.
Mr. and Mrs. Tan Liang have two sons, the eldest son Jeffrey and the younger son Charlie, both sons are the best among young people, the stars in the school, the younger son graduated from the top high school in New York with his own efforts to enter the well-known Cornell University in the United States.
In college, he joined the school's football team and fraternity, not only that, but also served on the Christian youth board outside the school, such a family made everyone envious, but what is hidden behind such a perfect family?
Shortly before Tan Liang's death, Tan Qing applied to the police for a protection order, asked a well-known local lawyer about divorce, and when there was a problem with the relationship between the parents, the two children invariably stood next to their mothers, because the children when they were young followed their mothers to the domestic violence shelter, and this experience engraved an indelible mark in the hearts of young children.
On the afternoon of January 28, 2015, after the police left Tan Liang's home, his wife Tan Qing picked up the phone and called her eldest son.
Since the eldest son left home to go to school, the mother and son often communicated by phone, and each time the mother would tell her son about the problems and difficulties she encountered.
Hearing that the mother was cruelly treated by his father, every word was engraved in the heart of the eldest son, and the eldest son repeatedly told his mother Tan Qing on the phone that he must protect himself and hide himself, and not to face his father Tan Liang.
On February 5, the eldest son's school did not have a learning task, he took out the balance of the two cards in his hand, and told his football coach that he had something important the next day and would miss the rest day of training, because Charlie worked hard in training and never absent, the coach did not take things too seriously, he agreed to his absence, and the eldest son Charlie left the school after taking leave.
Get carried away
At noon on February 5, Charlie drove alone to New York Cortland, located dozens of kilometers away from the school, and after arriving in Cortland, he looked for a supermarket, Charlie found the counter service staff, told the counter service staff that he wanted to buy a gun, and the staff warmly received the big boy who looked very sunny and upright.
After Charlie completed the gun purchase form, the staff began to review the form, and the staff found that in the form filled out by the boy, the nationality column was filled in as Canadian, which aroused the curiosity of the staff, and decided to conduct a second review of Charlie's purchase qualifications.
But at this time, Charlie was so anxious that he had no patience to wait for the second investigation, so he found his friend Nick Boke to help him buy a weapon, and Charlie got the weapon he had in mind and returned home satisfied.
After getting the weapon, Charlie was very excited, sneaked back home in the early morning of February 5, before entering the house, he looked around outside the door and found that his father Tan Liang was working in the study, so Charlie entered through the small door in the backyard, successfully avoided Tan Liang's vision, entered from the small door, slowly pushed open the door, and came to the back of his father Tan Liang.
Probably in intuition, Tan Liang unconsciously turned his head back, and when he looked back, he was surprised to find that in front of it was his own son, who was holding a weapon in his hand facing him, and with three gunshots, Tan Liang officially said goodbye to this beautiful world.
At this time, Charlie was a little flustered, his father who lived day and night died in his hands, died in front of himself, although he had been mentally prepared before this, but when all this happened, Charlie's heart was still unacceptable, after all, he was only 19 years old at the time.
After calming down, he chose to contact his mother at the first time, let her return home to pack her bags with her, and the family went to Canada to start a new life.
Charlie's heart could not be calm for a long time, did not want to stay in the house, just stood alone outside the house to breathe the air, Charlie turned his head to see, in the distance on the road there is a police car is driving towards him, Charlie suddenly panicked, thinking that the sound of the shooting just now alarmed the neighbor, the neighbor called the police, thinking of this, Charlie planned to turn himself in like a policeman.
Sure enough, the police car stopped smoothly in front of him, and Charlie greeted the police officer in a friendly way, but what Charlie did not expect was that the reason why the police officer came to him was because his friend saw that he was in a bad mood and was worried that something would happen to him, so he chose to call the police in a hurry.
Charlie told the police about the unfortunate incident he had recently encountered at school, and the police expressed great regret after listening to it, and after comforting Charlie, they left, and what the police did not expect was that a murder had arrived, and it was in the villa within five meters.
Shortly after the police left, Charlie and his mother drove away from the crime site with their packed luggage.
In the early morning of February 6, 2015, the two drove from the United States into Canada, originally Charlie mother and son planned to flee from Toronto, the capital of Canada, back to China, the mother even took the initiative to buy two tickets from Canada to Shanghai, a day later, brother Jeffrey also rushed to Canada to meet with his brother and mother.
Two days later, the visa to return to China was officially approved, but Charlie, who had done well, suddenly thought that if his brother and mother escaped with him, then they would also be charged with murder.
After making a decision, they decided to drive back to the United States together, and at 5 p.m. that day, Charlie and his brother, who was in the same university, wrote a letter with the following sentence: "My good brothers, you may hear some stories through the news in the next few days, you must not believe what happened, some people already know what happened, but please do not believe what you have heard." ”
Subsequently, the 911 reporting center received a call from Tan Qing, who came to the scene to investigate and found that Tan Liang's emails had not been read since February 5, and the forensic doctor preliminarily judged that Tan Liang had been dead for 48 to 72 hours.
All indications point to the day of February 5, which happened to be the day when his youngest son, Charlie, took a leave of absence to go home, and on the way home, he took the initiative to buy guns and ammunition, and Charlie faced all kinds of evidence, like a policeman confessed: "He will kill my mother, I can't lose my mother, I want to kill everyone who is not good for my mother." "Charlie was taken away by police and subsequently sentenced to second-degree intentional homicide.
The truth of the matter
Things seem to come to an end at this moment, but the whole process of Charlie's trial did not go well, because in court, Charlie did not plead guilty.
The court pointed out that Charlie had several reasons for committing the crime; 1. Charlie did buy a gun that day. 2. The shell casing next to the corpse has Charlie's fingerprints. 3. When Tan Liang died, Charlie just happened to take a leave of absence to return home. 4. Charlie personally stated at the scene of Voffa: "I have to do this." 5. Charlie sent his brother an email hinting at the incident.
And the motivation for all this was to protect his mother, who was forced to do such a thing.
But Charlie's lawyer refutes this point one by one, first of all, the lawyer pointed out that Charlie was not the only one in the room when he died of greed, the shell did have Charlie's fingerprints, but everything could only be sure that he had touched the shell, there was no fingerprint on the gun, and Charlie could not shoot Tan Liang by throwing it with his hand.
The actual meaning of Charlie's email is that he has sinned for his mother, not that he has done something wrong.
In terms of the motive for killing, it is obvious that Tan Qing, who has been abused for a long time, is more likely to take the initiative to attack Tan Liang, but all the evidence does not point to his mother Tan Qing, and the evidence does not show that Charlie must be the murderer.
For Charlie's non-confession, the court finally decided to acquit Charlie and release him in court after dozens of hours of deliberation.
At that time, there were also different voices in the outside world on this case, and some people believed that Charlie was the real murderer, and had serious doubts and scolding about the unwiseness of the judiciary, believing that Charlie used the tragic experiences and encounters of his family to win the sympathy of the jury in exchange for his freedom.
There are also some people who believe that the murderer of Tan Liang is his mother Tan Qing, because Tan Qing has been abused by Tan Liang for many years, after Tan Qing killed her husband, Tan Qing was unwilling to face the criminal law herself, so she decided to lead her son to escape from this land of right and wrong, after escaping from failure, get along with the idea of letting her son bear the guilt and escape from judicial punishment.
Just when no one knew who the murderer was, Charlie was sent to prison again because of a coincidence.
Truth
In September 2017, two years after Tan Liang's death, Charlie rushed from Canada to the United States because of the marriage of a friend, who knew that when he first entered the United States, there were police ambushes and arrests for him, and the reason for the arrest was the case two years ago.
Of course, it is not because there is new evidence in the case, and there is no turning point, the police's prosecution of Charlie this time is the gun that Charlie held in his hand at that time.
Because the person who bought the gun was not Charlie, when buying the gun, his friend clearly signed that he was the last user of the gun and ammunition, but Charlie maliciously instigated others to buy a gun for himself and use it, which seriously violated the local regulations of the United States.
The police did not give up after the failed prosecution of Charlie, they began to investigate from another angle, after the arrest of Charlie's brothers, the police investigated Charlie's previous personal information at school, which did not know, the content of the investigation frightened the police.
In fact, Charlie did not look so young and sunny, this excellent sunshine boy who everyone praised, in fact, in the school, according to the convenience of his position, sold some drugs that would cause serious health effects on the human body, and benefited from it.
Therefore, the police determined the possibility of Charlie's crime, and when Charlie entered the country, they arrested Charlie.
He also formally arrested Charlie for buying a gun in bad faith and violating local regulations for 20 years.
In order to reduce his sentence, Charlie chose to admit the case of that year and admitted what he had done, and the case that had been silent for two years finally came to fruition, and the murderer was also revealed.
summary
This case also caused a sensation throughout the United States, and under the trend of domestic violence and family conflicts, there will be many undesirable results.
Even if the happiest, most excellent, and healthy family will have friction because of some trivial things, everyone's view of things is different, and friction is very normal.
Of course, no matter how much Tan Liang does anything excessive, the person who punished him must not be Charlie, who is a child, and Charlie's ability to behave in this way must show that Charlie has heard about violence since he was a child.
Children's education and experience from an early age will definitely have a great impact on the child's entire life, I hope that every child can have a healthy growth environment, and I hope that the same things can be properly handled, and there will be no more things like tan liang family.
Under the law and morality, Charlie must have made the wrong choice.
But who is responsible for the fact that his wife Tan Qing has been abused for many years and has no way to get a reasonable solution within the law?
So do you think that everything Tan Liang did was right or wrong?
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