A few days ago, the "12·22" shooting massacre in Xinhua, Hunan shocked the whole country. 46 hours later, the suspect Chen Jianxiang was captured. Why did Chen Jianxiang, a people's policeman, brutally shoot innocent people?

"Chen Jianxiang has been caught!"

At 5:11 pm on December 24, a 10-second video received from Xinhua confirmed the news.

Chen Jianxiang, a police officer from the Public Security Bureau of Xinhua County, Hunan Province, shot and killed two people on December 22 and then absconded.

Only 46 hours passed between the incident and Chen Jianxiang’s capture. During these 46 hours, the main leaders of the Ministry of Public Security, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial Government attached great importance to it and issued important instructions respectively. Huang Guanchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and Xu Xianhui, member of the Party Leadership Group of the Hunan Provincial Government and Director of the Public Security Department, were respectively in charge of the command center of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department and the Xinhua arrest front line.

Why did Chen Jianxiang, a policeman, kill people? Where did the gun come from?

"Crazy" on the eve of birthday

At about 7:00 pm on December 22, 2017, near the former "705 Base" of a logistics unit about 4 kilometers west of Xinhua County, Hunan Province, A police civilian vehicle crashed into a large truck with a bang. The driver suddenly opened the door and rushed out, running as fast as he could.

A gunman got out of the passenger seat and chased the driver wildly. Then, three gunshots pierced the tranquility of the mountain village. The driver managed to escape, and the murderer fled under cover of night. In the car left at the scene, people found a male body with gunshot wounds. It was later confirmed that the deceased was Duan, a laid-off employee.

The perpetrator is Chen Jianxiang, a police officer from the Public Security Bureau of Xinhua County, Hunan Province.

At about 9 a.m. on December 22, Chen Jianxiang borrowed a pistol for duty from a police officer named Zeng of the Xinhua County Public Security Bureau. At about 10 o'clock, they kidnapped an acquaintance who had worked as a police assistant and drove him. First, they invited Zou (in his 30s), an employee of the county's education bureau, into the car and shot him dead.

According to rumors, Zou and Chen's "Liang Zi" got married 10 years ago. At that time, Chen Jianxiang, wearing a police uniform, was handling a traffic accident in Nanmen Bay, Xinhua County. The person involved in the traffic accident, Zou, did not give him "face."

After shooting Zou, Chen Jianxiang continued to hold the driver hostage and transported Zou’s body to the junction of Baixing Village, Caojia Town and Jixing Village, Sangzi Town, and asked the driver to get out of the car and drag the body. The driver looked at Chen warily while dragging him, worried that Chen would attack him. Later, the driver dragged the body to a small forest only about 20 meters away from the road, and found some branches and leaves to cover it up.

After completing the body dumping, Chen Jianxiang contacted his second target by phone. The man survived because he was not in Xinhua. Then, Chen contacted Duan Moumou (58 years old), a laid-off employee, and said that he had a case and wanted to assist in the investigation. Duan was shot and killed after getting in the car. Then, Chen Jianxiang took the driver hostage and took the body to the first dumping point. The driver was not familiar with the local terrain and failed to find it after several attempts.

Then, he asked the driver to drive towards Xihe to find the next target. According to insiders, when the vehicle held hostage by Chen Jianxiang came to the vicinity of the "705" base in Xinhua County, the driver saw a large truck parked on the roadside and hit it without hesitation... and the scene at the beginning of this article occurred. .

This day is one step away from Chen Jianxiang’s 46th birthday (December 23).

Maybe it was a coincidence that after 46 hours of escape, Chen Jianxiang was captured by the police.

46 hours of arrest

At about 5 pm on December 24, a small hill in Sanbanqiao Village, Ketou Township, Xinhua County, Hunan Province broke the silence of thousands of years. Suddenly Attracted by public opinion. As the short mobile phone video spread, Chen Jianxiang, who killed two people with a gun, was surrounded by dozens of special police officers and dozens of police dogs. With his face covered in blood, he lay on the stone and held his head, then was captured. A Type 77 pistol and two magazines were seized at the scene, one of which had 7 bullets and the other had one bullet left. There were no casualties in the arrest.

In 46 hours, the "12·22" shooting case in Xinhua, Hunan was solved.

"The blood stains and wounds on his face were formed on the way to escape. It cannot be ruled out that he committed self-mutilation." The police at the front analyzed this. Chen Jianxiang was actually extremely exhausted since he started fleeing at noon on the 22nd.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon on the 24th, when a female villager from Sanbanqiao Village, Ketou Township, went to the field to pull radishes, she found a stranger roasting sweet potatoes in an abandoned cellar on the mountain, and then called the police. The headquarters immediately mobilized hundreds of police officers to carry out the arrest operation. In addition to the police, the local people also spontaneously joined in the operation to arrest the suspects. Chen Jianxiang also knew that he would not be able to escape. When he found that the police were surrounding him like iron barrels and shouting, Chen Jianxiang did not put up any form of stubborn resistance. He followed the instructions of the roundup police and was arrested without mercy.

In addition to his police officer ID, Chen Jianxiang also had an iPhone. Subsequently, multiple videos of the arrest scene were spread across the country through the mobile Internet-obviously they were filmed by the police at the arrest scene.

In the 46 hours from the incident at around 7 pm on the 22nd to the capture of Chen Jianxiang, the main leaders of the Ministry of Public Security, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial Government attached great importance to it and issued important instructions respectively.

Huang Guanchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and Xu Xianhui, member of the Party Leadership Group of the Hunan Provincial Government and Director of the Public Security Department, were respectively in charge of the command center of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department and the Xinhua arrest front line. The task force headquarters also deployed more than 2,000 capable special police officers and Xinhua local social forces from Changsha, Hengyang, Shaoyang, Huaihua, Yiyang and other places to participate in the search.

At the same time, the three-level public security organs of Hunan Province, Loudi City, and Xinhua County quickly launched a major case investigation mechanism. The police also issued a reward notice to the public, solicited clues about suspects from the general public, and reported A reward of 50,000 yuan will be given to those whose clues help capture the suspect, and a reward of 100,000 yuan will be given to those who directly capture the suspect.

At 5:40 pm the day before (December 23), the bodies of Zou, the first victim shot by Chen Jianxiang, were found in Baixing Village, Caojia Town, Xinhua County and Jixing Village, Sangzi Town. Found in the junction of weeds.

On the afternoon of the 24th, after Chen Jianxiang was captured, he was immediately sent to Xinhua County People’s Hospital for rescue. According to insiders, Chen suffered a penetrating injury to his right eye, the entire eyeball exploded, a large area of ??his head was edematous, the base and top of his skull were fractured due to shock, and the skull and maxillary bone on the opposite side were completely shattered. Due to the serious injury, Chen Jianxiang was urgently transferred to the brain surgery department of Changsha Xiangya Hospital that night for treatment. We learned from authoritative brain surgery experts close to Xiangya Hospital that Chen Jianxiang's life is not in danger for the time being.

It turned out that before Chen Jianxiang was arrested, he shot himself in the right temple, and the bullet erupted from his right eye. This is also the reason why his right eye was closed tightly when he was captured. Experts analyzed that Chen should have shot himself during the day on December 23 or the morning of December 24, and had been unconscious for several hours. When he was arrested, he said the pistol was in his right pocket, but in fact the gun was in the grass more than 20 meters away, indicating that he had memory problems due to brain injury.

The past is like smoke

What kind of person is Chen Jianxiang?

Chenjia Mountain at the foot of Tianma Mountain in Xihe Town, Xinhua County is the famous "Huangyang Mountain" (commonly known as "Wangye Mountain" among the people). The folk customs are simple and the villagers have a tradition of advocating literature and martial arts. It is the main origin of Meishan martial arts. land.

Chen Jianxiang was born in Hengyang Village here. Influenced by his environment, Chen Ye has practiced martial arts since he was a child and has considerable brute strength. He is always the winner when fighting among his peers.

According to Chen Jianxiang’s high school classmates, he was admitted to the nearby Xinhua No. 2 Middle School after graduating from junior high school in 1986. He was in Class 105 as a freshman in high school, and was assigned to Class 104, a key liberal arts class, in his sophomore year. His deskmate recalled that Chen Jianxiang was very loyal and not tall, but he was not afraid of trouble or fights. Even the "bad beans" (the local name for local gangsters) in society still wanted to give him three points. But after the summer vacation of 1988, Chen Jianxiang suddenly transferred to Xinhua No. 3 Middle School in the county.

Many years later, some classmates solved the mystery of Chen Jianxiang's transfer: It turned out that a "bad beans" gang where Xinhua No. 2 Middle School was located at that time developed L, a student from No. 2 Middle School, into a gang member. L was very scared after joining the gang and asked to quit, but the "boss" did not allow it and threatened that if he quit, he would have to introduce someone else. So L introduced his classmate Chen Jianxiang. After Chen Jianxiang participated in several actions with the "Bad Beans" gang, he was very frightened and wrote "I am completely finished" many times in his composition. The attentive Chinese teacher immediately talked to him, and he told the truth. The teacher immediately reported the situation to the school and informed parents. So, in his senior year of high school, Chen Jianxiang's parents found connections to transfer him to Xinhua No. 3 Middle School.

In the 1989 college entrance examination, Chen Jianxiang failed. After studying in a cram school for three years, he was finally admitted to the Hunan Provincial Judicial School.

According to insiders, Chen Jianxiang returned to his hometown to work in the public security agency after graduating from the Hunan Provincial Judicial School. He worked successively in the Criminal Investigation Squadron of Youjia Police Station and Shangmei Police Station of Xinhua County Public Security Bureau, and was later transferred to the County Public Security Bureau.

"Chen Jianxiang is recognized as a character with a smart mind, but a paranoid personality and a bad temper." Chen Jianxiang's colleagues many years ago said that he was a gambler by nature and played cards day and night. As long as he didn't get enough of it, others would You are not allowed to leave if you win, and you are not allowed to leave if you lose. If he asks you to borrow money, you can't refuse it, and you can't ask for it. Of course, he will take the initiative to pay you back as soon as he has money. "Colleagues who understand Chen Jianxiang's characteristics will generally not play with him (Chen Jianxiang)."

According to a classmate of Chen Jianxiang, in ten years Former Chen was treated at the Second Xiangya Hospital and Hunan Provincial Brain Hospital for intracranial hypertension and depression. According to an investigation by the well-known self-media person "Yu Shi Zai Tu", Chen Jianxiang had an argument with his wife who was accompanying him when he was being treated at the brain hospital. He ran out of the hospital and walked onto the busy street, as if there was no one around, and there was a long queue of cars behind him. , trumpets sound one after another. Later, he stopped a taxi in the middle of the road and wanted to get in. The driver didn't agree, so he opened the door and held down the driver before hitting him...

After that, Chen Jianxiang relied on drugs to control his emotions for many years. According to people around him, doctors had warned him that the reason why he suffered from depression was related to his work environment, long-term stay up late, and irregular life.

Although he was "smart", he was inevitably "killed" (the local saying for cheating) at the card table. After losing a lot of money, he once threatened to "Blood debt must be paid with blood." Unconfirmed news indicates that he was listed as the target of "shooting" this time, and it cannot be ruled out that it is related to this.

Chen Jianxiang’s former friend, Chen Jianxiang, had a rather flamboyant personality and spoke in a very loud tone, which was really disliked by others.

In the eyes of his colleagues, although Chen Jianxiang is very loyal, he is not easy to deal with. When he was working at a police station, there was a disciplinary violation of collective illegal distribution of money. Other colleagues returned the illegal income, but Chen Jianxiang refused to return it and threatened, "It depends on the gun in my hand." After that, nothing happened.

A "full of feelings" circle of friends

After Chen Jianxiang suffered from cerebral hemorrhage, he did not restrain himself much at the poker table. He also did many other extraordinary things. For example, at a high school class reunion held not long ago, he actually brought a girl in her 20s to attend, which surprised the classmates present.

In addition, some people who are familiar with Chen Jianxiang believe that he is "emphasis on friendship, literary talent, and sentiment." I also read some sentimental and literary words from Chen Jianxiang’s WeChat Moments.

For example, he wrote in a circle of friends on September 2, 2015: "Today I returned to my alma mater in Zhanggongling after many years of absence. I deeply feel that this is the most beautiful place where I cherish my youth deep in my memory. The most cherished thing about my dear, especially recalling the childish smiles of roommates 205 and fellow Xinhua fellows living off campus, strolling on the green grassland of my alma mater, leaving behind strings of hearty laughter, like wind chimes in the air. The echo left by the gentle breeze floats in my ears, and I still can’t forget the image of the vegetable thief left by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.”

This text should be from Chen Jianxiang’s return to Hunan Province that day. An experience on the campus of the Judicial School.

For another example, on October 14, 2015, Chen Jianxiang expressed his remembrance of his old childhood friends after forwarding a WeChat article titled "A Nostalgic Music, Expressing Deep Feelings of Hometown": "In I have been living in the small town for a long time. Although my hometown is only 30 miles away, I always feel that the moon is the moon in my hometown and the people are my relatives. Do you remember the childhood friends who caught fish and shrimps in the creek and played hide-and-seek in the fields with scattered moonlight? Playing, pretending to be a ghost and scaring the neighbor's little girl into tears, playing in the village pond and having water fights without giving up, and even stealing fruits, catching field fish together late at night and not daring to take back the comfort of eating them with firewood... Scenes from my hometown... It's also unique and people are intoxicating: the light rain is gentle and the wind is gentle, and the wet flowers of thousands of willows can't fly. Only now, the sorrow is boundless, and the spring water is still there. No idea. Please stay drunk for a while at Cundonggu Liquor House, and you will be happy and shed tears." On December 13, 2015, Chen Jianxiang "sorted out his emotions" in his circle of friends: "That's it. When the excitement subsided and the night came to an end, I, who had just been full of interest, seemed to be swallowed up by the boundless darkness. I can’t remember when I felt so lost. Brother Xiang looked at his heart and seemed to be shocked: If you are immersed in nothingness for too long, you will sometimes lose your sensitivity to life. Should you wait for the flowers to bloom to please yourself? , instead of covering up and pretending. Be kind to yourself."

It is not difficult to read his past aspirations in the circle of friends on March 19, 2016. It is also the last Moments message that Chen Jianxiang’s WeChat friends can view: “Top Gun has been studying for several years and has had no regrets and no regrets. Once we are united and we achieve success, we will recall the hardships and joys of working hard. I think back to Brother Xiang in those days. I moved to 1238 (referring to the No. 1, 2, 3, and 8 middle schools of Xinhua County). After many trials, I finally lived up to the emperor's expectations. Although I was in the bottom of the stream, I was very kind to me who had no talent. I only sighed that my temples were gone. Nothing can be achieved."

At least four new and old colleagues who are familiar with Chen Jianxiang said: "He is such a contradictory person, which is unpredictable and difficult to understand."

According to the police officer who was held hostage by Chen Jianxiang, Chen told him in the car that there were more than 20 people involved in his shooting plan. According to people close to the police, Chen Jianxiang should have been preparing for this revenge for at least a year. He may have been using the opportunity of target practice to secretly store bullets. However, another colleague of Chen Jianxiang reported to "Censor on the Road" that Chen Jianxiang had been taking medication for a long time and was physically weak. He rarely participated in shooting training, and there was no basis for the theory of storing bullets.

The suspect has been captured. As the police interrogation deepens and the work progresses, Chen Jianxiang’s murder motive will gradually emerge. Some observers have analyzed that someone will definitely be held responsible for the problems in the Xinhua County Public Security Bureau's team building and gun management that are widely concerned by public opinion. In the words of a local leader, “He (Chen Jianxiang) has harmed countless people.” One of his colleagues said in an interview with “Yu Shi Zai Tu”: “The Xinhua County Public Security Bureau is at the critical stage of reform and improvement. At that moment, his image was completely ruined.”

Previously, the policeman who illegally lent Chen Jianxiang a gun had been arrested. Currently, Chen Jianxiang is receiving treatment at Xiangya Hospital. His family also hired a lawyer to protect his legal rights. However, the mental harm Chen Jianxiang caused to the families of the victims and the negative impact on society are immeasurable. Chen Jianxiang will also pay the due price for his actions.

Killing is unforgivable, and you cannot let others foot the bill for your own reasons.