| Chongqing shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Chongqing, China |
| Coordinates | 29°36′36″N 106°23′20″E / 29.610°N 106.389°E / 29.610; 106.389 |
| Date | 5 April 1993 |
| Attack type | Mass murder, mass shooting, murder-suicide, spree shooting |
| Weapons | Hunting rifle |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 3 |
| Perpetrator | Chen Xuerong |
The Chongqing shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Chongqing, China on 5 April 1993. Chen Xuerong, (surname written as Chinese: 程) a worker at the Chongqing machine factory, who was angered by a mistake on his timesheet, armed himself with a hunting rifle and searched for his boss with the intent to kill him, but upon finding that the latter was not present he shot dead three of his co-workers.
Pursued by security guards, Chen escaped the factory grounds by jumping over a wall, and once out on the street fired at a family of four passing by on a motorcycle with sidecar, fatally hitting a man and two women, and wounding the fourth. He next injured a soldier in a van, and then killed another man, on whose bike he fled. At a junction Chen stopped and hijacked a taxi, after killing the driver, and injuring his passenger, and eventually killed himself by driving down a 30-meters deep ravine, about 40 minutes after firing his first shots.
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