At about 9 o'clock that night, the office building of a certain television station in Henan was still brightly lit. Li Xiang, a tough guy in Taili, was discussing interviews with several colleagues in the office, and a table was full of materials.
"Brother Xiangzi, you're going to get married soon, don't fight so hard anymore, accompany your sister-in-law more!" A colleague jokingly persuaded him.
"Yes, yes, the work has to be done in moderation, you can't toss like this anymore. Another female colleague laughed.
Li Xiang listened, and his face was filled with a happy smile: "I know, I'll take a few days off to accompany her on her honeymoon after this time!" The smile on his face and the joy revealed in his tone infected the whole room, and all colleagues also gave a thumbs up.
In the blink of an eye, it was getting late, and Li Xiang left the TV station and walked home alone. When passing by the community garden, he inadvertently looked back and noticed that a suspicious figure was following him. He looked around vigilantly but found nothing out of the ordinary, and eventually thought it was too much.
With a relaxed smile on his face, Li Xiang continued to stride forward, but he was still thinking about the wedding words to be posted in a few days.
This was the last change in Li Xiang's expression, and he was stabbed and robbed by the gangsters in an instant, and finally fell in a pool of blood with more than ten knives in his body.
At the moment when the news came, the criminal policemen of a public security bureau in Henan had just finished their day's work and were about to pack up their things and go home from work. However, after receiving a call from the 110 command center, they had to hurriedly repack and go to the police again.
"The man Li was robbed and killed by gangsters at the gate of the family courtyard of XX TV station at about 11 o'clock in the evening!" The female police officer on the other end of the line hurried to report the situation.
Du, the captain of the criminal police who took over the case, and other police officers immediately rushed to the scene. I saw a bloodstained man lying on the ground, his handbag had been robbed, and the money and belongings in his pocket had been looted.
Several witnesses around told what they had seen that the gangsters committed the crime extremely quickly and ferociously, and they did not see their faces clearly.
Captain Du sank his face and immediately arranged his colleagues to take action - the on-site investigation team conducted a comprehensive investigation of Li Xiang's body and surrounding traces, the police team used the monitoring of the family home to track the escape route of the gangsters, and the criminal investigation team investigated and understood Li Xiang's background and behavior before the crime.
After several days of traveling, the police finally found a key surveillance video, showing that the two motorcyclists had left the family home after committing the crime on the night of the crime. Combining investigations, interviews and sporadic clues, the police gradually zeroed in on the two suspects involved in the case and quickly arrested them two days later.
The two are named Zhang Moubo and Li Mouzhao respectively.
Soon after the two were arrested, they confessed the details of the robbery of Li Xiang, but flatly denied that it had anything to do with their work or the reported gutter oil incident......
After the police returned to the case for interrogation, they soon released the news of the case to the public, claiming that they had arrested two robbery and murder suspects, and denied that they were related to the gutter oil incident reported by Li Xiang.
However, on the Internet, the details of the case and various speculations spread quickly among the public.
"This case is very strange, it must have something to do with those gutter oil merchants!"
"Reporter Li was still tracking them before he died, and he was killed by those black-hearted businessmen!"
Although the police have clarified the nature of the case, the public still firmly believes that Li Xiang's death is related to his identity as a journalist covering gutter oil. Public opinion became more and more fierce for a while, believing that the police were suspected of harboring black-hearted businessmen, and some people even launched a joint petition on the Internet to demand a thorough investigation of the truth of the case.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the police had to issue another statement, emphasizing that they could even make public the suspect's confession and details of the crime to prove that the crime was purely an ordinary robbery and homicide case.
Before Li Xiang's death, the TV station also set up a special program for several days to clarify that his reporting work had never offended anyone.
However, it is still difficult for the population to accept. In their opinion, the timing and place of the crime are too coincidental, and there must be some kind of deep conspiracy.
Under the pressure of public opinion for several days, the police and television stations had to publicly clarify the case again, hoping to calm down the flood of online rumors.
The director of the television station and a number of Li Xiang's colleagues came to hold a press conference with the police to explain in detail the work of Li Xiang before his death and the extent of the coverage of the gutter oil incident.
At the meeting, they presented a large amount of evidence, and made public Li Xiang's work notes, business trip records, manuscript archives, and the testimonies of colleagues in recent years. All kinds of evidence show that although Li Xiang was also involved in several brief reports on the gutter oil incident, he only forwarded the relevant reports without in-depth investigation.
"It is very likely that the killing of reporter Li was an ordinary robbery, and it is not directly related to the content of his daily investigative reporting. The director of the television station summed up his statement, and the police personnel once again expressed their support for this conclusion.
Despite this, public opinion remains difficult to quell. But in the face of a mountain of testimony and evidence, the police and television stations have largely ruled out the possibility that the case is related to gutter oil.
In order to avoid trouble, they no longer made any response to the rumors on the Internet, but continued to focus on the investigation of the case and the collection of evidence to ensure that the two murderers were finally brought to justice.
Although Li Xiang's case was finally solved, it set off huge waves in society. It not only ruined a young man's life, but also made a couple's beautiful marriage come to naught.
Li Xiang's parents almost fainted the moment they learned the bad news, and his mother cried bitterly. They were also happily preparing for their son's wedding, and had even ordered a wedding table.
Now that everything is gone, the old couple only feels like a knife. They were devastated, their mother had to take long-term medication to keep them going, and their father no longer smiled.
Li Xiang's fiancée, Liu Xiao, cried for three days and three nights after receiving the bad news, and almost collapsed. Not only did she lose the love of her life, but she also faced the rest of her life alone as a "widow".
The wedding celebration has also become the most painful memory of her life.
The case also sparked strong repercussions in society. Countless people lamented the fragility of life and demanded that the government strengthen public order rectification and crack down on crime. The culprit, Zhang Moubo and Li Mouzhao, were finally arrested by the police, and according to the crime of robbery and homicide in the Criminal Law, the two may face heavy penalties of more than ten years or even life imprisonment.