List of rampage killers (familicides in China)

This section of the list of rampage killers contains familicides that occurred in China where at least half of the victims were relatives of the perpetrator or the perpetrator's spouse. Cases with more than one offender are not included.

A rampage killer has been defined as follows:

A rampage involves the (attempted) killing of multiple persons least partly in public space by a single physically present perpetrator using (potentially) deadly weapons in a single event without any cooling-off period.[1]

This list should contain every case with at least one of the following features:

• Rampage killings with 6 or more dead
• In all cases the perpetrator is not counted among those killed or injured.

All abbreviations used in the table are explained below.

Rampage killers

	Perpetrator	Date	Year	Location	Province	Killed	Injured	W	Additional Notes	Ref.
1.	Ou Yangpu (欧阳普)	Jan. 1	1976	Zixing	Hunan	17	0	M	Committed suicide	[2]
2.	Liu Aibing, 34* (刘爱兵)	Dec. 12	2009	Yinshanpai	Hunan	13	1	FMA	Sentenced to death and executed	[3]
3.	Jia Yingmin, 40 (賈英民)	Oct. 6	2000	Kunlong	Shaanxi	12	0	M	Committed suicide	[4]
4.	Wang Changyi, 30 (王昌义)	Aug. 1	2006	Mengzi County	Yunnan	10	1	M	Committed suicide, Also killed a pig, a dog and a cat	[5]
5.	Chai Gongmin, 21 (柴公敏)	Feb. 12	2008	Baoding	Hebei	10	0	M	Sentenced to death	[6]
6.	Gao Xueqing, 25*	Feb.	1985	Henan	Henan	9	?	MA	Arrested	[7]
7.	He Xiangyue* (何祥月)	March 20	2005	Yibin	Sichuan	9	?	M	Sentenced to death and executed	[8]
8.	Xu, ---, 34	Sep. 15	1998	Magui	Guangdong	7	5	M	Arrested	[9]
9.	Feng Zhongyou, 25 (冯忠友)	Nov. 16	2004	Bohuo	Yunnan	7	1	M	Committed suicide	[10]
10.	Zhu Caifa, 37* (祝才发)	Feb. 3	2010	Ximenkan	Guizhou	7	0	M	Arrested	[11]
11.	Ma Yongdong, 24* (麻永东)	Oct. 14	2013	Wenghoug	Ningxia	7	0	M	Arrested Terminated a pregnancy	[12]
12.	Wu Shouguo, 38* (武守国)	Feb. 14	2015	Xiaonangou	Hebei	7	0	M	Committed suicide	[13]
13.	Chen Qian, 29 (陈谦)	Dec. 27/28	2009	Qinghe County	Hebei	6	5	FM	Committed suicide	[14]
14.	Song Shuangxi	July	1986	Hubei	Hubei	6	3	M	Committed suicide	[15]
15.	Wen Tieshuan, 49* (温铁栓)	Nov. 26	2009	Qingshuihe County	Inner Mongolia	6	1	M	Committed suicide	[16]
16.	Ma Yanshan, 36* (马燕山)	May 2	2002	Ürümqi	Xinjiang	6	0	M	Sentenced to death	[17]
17.	Huang Wenyi, 34 (黄文义)	Dec. 28	2006	Foshan	Guangdong	6	0	M	Sentenced to death	[18]
18.	Dong Gang, 29* (董刚)	Feb. 24	2007	Helong	Jilin	6	0	M	Sentenced to death	[19]
19.	Chen Wenfa, 21* (陈文法)	Nov. 16	2009	Wumeng	Yunnan	6	0	M	Found not guilty by reason of insanity	[20]
20.	Li Lei, 28* (李磊)	Nov. 23	2009	Beijing	Beijing	6	0	M	Sentenced to death	[21]
21.	Zhang Erhong, 32* (张二红)	Feb. 9	2010	Manshan	Hebei	6	0	M	Arrested	[22]
22.	Jiang Shunmao	March 23	1981	Gongcheng	Guangxi	6	?	E	Committed suicide	[23]
23.	Li Bingzhang (李炳章)	March 8	2003	Beiliu City	Guangxi	6	?		Sentenced to death	[24]

Abbreviations and footnotes

* – Marks cases where all the victims were relatives of the perpetrator

W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders

F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots

M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, stones, or bare hands

O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks

A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used

V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)

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