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In February 2017, a brutal homicide occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and the reason why the murderer committed the murder was only because the price of somen noodles in the noodle restaurant rose to 5 yuan.
After the murderer was arrested and brought to justice, the court's verdict caused a controversy.
Murder happens
In 2016, Yao Yongsheng, from Shiyan City, Hubei Province, rented a storefront shop on the edge of the East Square of Wuchang Railway Station. The store mainly sells hot dry noodles, jajanjang noodles and hot and sour noodles.
Due to its proximity to the train station, the street has a huge daily flow of people, and Yao Yongsheng has a steady flow of passengers, and business has always been good.
At noon on February 18, 2017, he was in the kitchen as usual while making the sauce for hot dry noodles with his hands and feet, while greeting customers who came and went.
At this time, it was the peak of returning home after the Spring Festival, and the business in the store was excellent on this day, and Yao Yongsheng was so busy that he didn't even have the time to drink saliva.
At this time, three young men who looked like migrant workers entered the store, Hu Zedong and his two friends.
After looking around the restaurant for a week, the three of them ordered three bowls of the cheapest four-element noodles on the price list, and then sat down at the table to feast.
When the three of them finished eating noodles and were about to pay, Yao Yongsheng said that the price on the price list had not been updated. Now because of the cost, the price of somen noodles has increased to five yuan a bowl.
The young man who paid didn't say anything after hearing this, and was about to take out another three dollars from his body. However, Hu Zedong was unwilling, he said that since the price list indicated four yuan, then why do you charge an extra one when collecting money?
There were already other guests in the kitchen who wanted noodles that had not yet been cooked, Yao Yongsheng was worried about other orders, and his tone was very impatient: "I can collect a few pieces if I want to, why do you have so much nonsense." ”
Hu Zedong is not a person to be messed with, he immediately raised his voice, saying that if you mark four yuan, we will only give four yuan, and we will not give any more points.
Yao Yongsheng was completely impatient at this time, and he yelled at Hu Zedong: "You can eat if you can afford it, don't eat if you can't afford it, get out of here now." ”
Both of them were angry, and it was difficult to vent their anger just by scolding each other, and they soon scuffled together. Although the two men who traveled with Hu Zedong have been fighting, Yao Yongsheng and Hu Zedong are still inseparable.
Yao Yongsheng does manual work in his noodle restaurant all year round, and his strength is slightly greater than Hu Zedong. He pushed Hu Zedong against the wall and slapped him several times.
Hu Zedong couldn't bear such humiliation, so he ran into the back kitchen of the noodle restaurant, trembling and rushing out with a kitchen knife.
Yao Yongsheng didn't believe that he dared to kill people at all, thinking that it was just a bluff, so he provoked him again.
Hu Zedong was completely enraged, raised his knife and slashed at Yao Yongsheng's body, and blood splashed everywhere in the noodle restaurant. Yao Yongsheng exhaled in pain and hurriedly fled.
However, due to his injuries, he did not run a few steps before he lost his strength and collapsed in front of his store. And Hu Zedong chased after him at this time, and slashed at Yao Yongsheng's head. After a while, Yao Yongsheng's entire head rolled down.
Hu Zedong was so calm that he took a plastic bag, put Yao Yongsheng's head in it, and threw it in the trash.
This set of actions happened so smoothly that everyone present was so frightened that they didn't dare to move. After the shock, I immediately called the police.
And Hu Zedong did not run away after committing the crime, but sat down at the door of Yao's noodle restaurant, staring into the distance with dull eyes. After the police arrived at the scene, they quickly arrested Hu Zedong.
The different lives of the two parties before the murder
It is reported that Hu Zedong was born in Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, and he was only 22 years old at the time of the crime. His family said in an interview that Hu Zedong was a short-tempered child who couldn't control his emotions since he was a child, and would do something to the people around him whenever he disagreed.
Therefore, from childhood to adulthood, his family and friends around him did not dare to provoke him, which formed a dead circle, no one could discipline him, so he acted even more lawlessly.
Before graduating from junior high school, he was expelled from school for getting into many fights with his classmates.
After that, he went to work on the railroad with a distant relative, because his strength was not as strong as that of other adults, and the salary he received was naturally not as good as others. Some workers laughed at him, so he fought with the other party again, and finally was fired by the boss within a few days.
After returning home this time, Hu Zedong's personality became more and more irritable.
The people around him will step on his minefield with a casual word, and then Hu Zedong will want to take out a knife to fight with others, and even carry a knife to the house of a relative who has a holiday with him during the Chinese New Year to scare each other.
Once his father couldn't help but accuse Hu Zedong of a few words, and then his arm was broken by Hu Zedong with a stool and he was treated in the hospital for several months.
Leaving school early, not having normal social relationships, and being rejected by family members. These factors are stacked together, making Hu Zedong's personality even more distorted.
It wasn't until June 2016 that Hu Zedong's parents felt that their son's behavior was becoming more and more erratic, so they sent him to a local psychiatric hospital. The doctor's diagnosis was that Hu Zedong was mentally retarded and had a mental disorder.
Hu Zedong was discharged from the local psychiatric hospital after four months of treatment and was issued a second-class mental disability certificate.
After the Spring Festival in 2017, Hu Zedong decided to go to Wuhan with a few friends to work to earn money, but due to his lack of work experience, his job search path repeatedly hit a wall, and his inner resentment piled up.
Later, on the day of the incident, Yao Yongsheng's contemptuous attitude angered him again. When Hu Zedong went under the knife, he probably vented all the dissatisfaction in his heart in the past few days on Yao Yongsheng alone.
Let's talk about Yao Yongsheng, the victim who lost his life because of a dollar of face money. He was born in Yunxi County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, and was brutally murdered by Hu Zedong when he was just past the age of confusion.
Yao Yongsheng's family background is not good, he is the eldest in the family, has a younger sister named Yao Li, and once had a younger brother, but died of drowning when he was a minor.
After the death of her younger brother, her mother suffered from deafness due to excessive grief, and her father had a heart condition. Parents have no ability to earn money, so the burden of life for the old and young of this family is all on Yao Yongsheng alone.
Before graduating from primary school, Yao Yongsheng went out to work. He worked as a coal kiln worker in Shanxi and Henan provinces for ten years, and later moved to Jiangsu Province to work as a construction worker for several years.
In order to take care of his parents, Yao Yongsheng returned to his hometown of Hubei Province and came to Wuhan to support himself by doing business. But the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Yao Yongsheng was cheated out of the only 100,000 yuan he had when he first arrived in Wuhan.
In 2003, he married a Wuhan woman, and the two had a son. However, because Yao Yongsheng's hard-earned money over the years could not fill the hole in his parents' treatment, he owed more and more debts. A few years later, his wife chose to divorce, and his son was awarded to Yao Yongsheng.
It wasn't until 2016 that Yao Yongsheng's life slowly improved.
Yao Yongsheng's uncle, Yao An, said that his nephew got up at 4 o'clock every day and was busy until 10 o'clock in the evening. Even so, at the time of the incident, he still had more than 200,000 yuan in foreign debts that had not been paid off.
"Who would have thought that such a filial person would suffer such a flying disaster." Yao An sighed.
At the time of the incident, Yao Yongsheng's son was doing his homework in a rented house near the noodle shop, and when he heard a noise coming from outside the house, he ran out curiously and found that the entrance to his noodle shop was blocked.
When he squeezed into the crowd, he saw a scene that he will never forget for the rest of his life, his father's head was in a different place, and the ground was covered with dazzling red blood.
The poor child's voice trembled and she called her aunt to inform her, and when Yao Li arrived at the scene, she was directly frightened by such a bloody scene and fainted.
After the incident, Yao Li went to the police station accompanied by her husband to make a record. She wanted to donate her brother's cornea and some organs, but in the end, due to medical problems, the donation was not successful.
After the news spread, some witnesses said that Yao Yongsheng had a bad temper. Yao Li was outraged by this, insisting that her brother had always been gentle and polite, well-behaved, and did not have vices such as smoking and drinking.
Yao Li believes that her brother was in a hurry to complete other customers' orders, so he didn't choose to say anything for a while, causing a dispute and offending Hu Zedong, but he didn't expect to pay the price of his life.
Yao Li told reporters with tears in her eyes that her nephew witnessed such a tragic scene when he was only 12 years old, which will have a great impact on his future growth. After his brother's funeral, his nephew has been reluctant to go back to school because he is afraid of hearing what his classmates are saying.
As for her elderly parents, Yao Li didn't dare to tell them the news, so she could only pretend that her brother was sick and died. But after all, the speed of Internet transmission is so fast, and she may not be able to hide this truth for long.
Yao Li and her husband hope that the compensation is a small matter, but the murderer must be severely punished so that the deceased can rest in peace.
Controversial judgments
When the police asked Hu Zedong why he was killing people after arresting him, Hu Zedong simply told the police with a blank face because Yao Yongsheng had beaten him at the time.
Hu Zedong's defense lawyer pointed out that he had surrendered voluntarily because of his remarks, and asked the court to give him a lenient sentence.
Hu Zedong's parents showed their son's psychiatric certificate, indicating that he was uncontrollable in doing such a thing, and hoped that the court would take this into account when sentencing.
However, Yao Li and her husband learned through the police that Hu Zedong behaved very normally during interrogation, and his thinking was also very clear, not at all like a mental illness. And even if he is mentally ill, why is there no guardian with him all the time?
The mainland's previous law provided that a mentally ill person did not need to bear criminal responsibility for homicide at the time of onset. After the police appraisal, it was also determined that Hu Zedong was a person with partial responsibility capacity.
However, in its judgment, the court took into account that Hu Zedong's modus operandi was extremely cruel and bloody, and had caused great harm and impact to society.
Finally, on June 27, 2017, the Wuhan Municipal People's Court sentenced Hu Zedong to death with a two-year reprieve, and at the same time compensated the victim's family for 25,000 yuan in funeral expenses.
The verdict in this case sparked a controversy on the Internet after fermenting on the Internet.
Some netizens think that the verdict is unreasonable, but most netizens still applaud the verdict, believing that the murderer's way of committing the crime is extremely cruel and harmful, and he cannot be exempted from punishment by virtue of his psychiatric identity.
It is also hoped that in the future, if there is a case of homicide by a mentally ill person, the court will be able to refer to the sentencing standards of that case when making a judgment.
As the saying goes, take a step back and open the sky. If there is more peace and tolerance between people, many tragedies may be avoided.
References: [1] The beginning and end of the Wuhan noodle restaurant murder incident - The Beijing News
[2] The first-instance verdict of the Wuhan noodle restaurant beheading case was announced, and the murderer was sentenced to a suspended death sentence and compensated 25,000 yuan - People's Daily