Huang Yichuan

According to a screenshot of Huang Yichuan's basic personal information that circulated on the Internet, he was born on June 3, 1989, in Hunan Province Suining County, and had been a student in the school of architecture of Hunan University of Science and Technology (HUST).

Some students at HUST confirmed that Huang Yichuan had previously studied with them at HUST.

They also mentioned that he had antisocial tendencies when he was a university student.

When Huang graduated from the college, he left many threatening messages on Tencent QQ to many students.

During the six years after his graduation, he participated in the Master's Program Admissions Examination many times but always failed.

In addition, during those years he had changed jobs more than ten times.

According to a survey conducted by Caixin Online, Huang Yichuan's parents divorced when he was a child.

His childhood home was in a building designed for the family of local civil servants in Suining County.

Additionally, his grandmother, Wu, was found to have had schizophrenia for decades.

In 2012 and 2013, Huang Yichuan failed the Postgraduate Admission Test twice and repeatedly failed to find a job, but he still hid the truth from his family and friends, claiming that he had a high income and perfect life.

During the Spring Festival before the Pubei Knife Murders, Huang's mother thought that her son was more withdrawn and irritable, and some distant relatives thought that he may have inherited his grandmother's schizophrenia.

On June 28, 2018, in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, China, three boys and a female parent were stabbed with a knife near the gate of the West Campus of the Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School at Pubei Road, Shanghai.

Two boys who attended died, and another student and parent were injured.

The suspect, Huang Yichuan, was arrested by the Procuratorate the next day.

On December 6, 2018, the first trial of the case was held.

The murder was found to be the result of the defendant's hopelessness for life and his desire for revenge on society.

The prosecutor pointed out that Huang Yichuan had schizophrenia.

He claimed that after a failure to find employment in many places, he went to Shanghai in early June 2018.

After arriving, Huang came up with the idea to take revenge on society through murder.

On the morning of June 28, he set out from his hotel with a stainless-steel kitchen knife and took a bus to Guilin West Street near the World Foreign Language Primary School.

At about 11 a.m., he saw three students and a parent leaving the school.

To avoid the security patrol at the school gate, he followed the group and stabbed them about 130 meters away from the school gate.

After the incident, his personal information was exposed through Human flesh search engine.

On May 23, 2019, Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court decided that Huang's mental illness did not affect his ability to control his own behavior.

The court then imposed the death penalty, as well as depriving his political rights for life.

On December 30, 2019, the Shanghai High People's Court rejected the appeal on Huang Yichuan's ruling, upheld the original judgment, and submitted it to the Supreme People's Court for approval. On December 3, 2020, Huang Yichuan was executed.

At 11:31 a.m. on June 28, the Xuhui Branch of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a phone call, saying that a man with a kitchen knife had cut three boys and a female parent near the sidewalk of Guilin West Street on Pubei Road.

With the help of others at the scene of the attack, the police arrested Huang Yichuan, the assailant, and sent the injured victims to the hospital.

By noon on June 28, two of the boys had died.

At 1:50 p.m., the Xuhui police issued a call for information.

According to a number of netizens, the site of the attack was found to be near the gate of the West Campus of the Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School.

According to a video uploaded by netizens, the two boys fell to the ground after being stabbed.

There was a lot of blood at the scene, and some people used towels to stop the children's bleeding.

A kitchen knife was also seen on the ground.

A number of people at the scene, including the staff of city management, held Huang Yichuan down to prevent his escape, and a passing air conditioner repairman tied him up with a rope.

After the police arrived, Huang was arrested and offered no resistance during the entire process.

One of the students, known only as Tan, was confirmed to have died from injury to the central nervous system and hemorrhagic shock due to the stabbing.

The other student who died, known as Fei, died of a brain injury and hemorrhagic shock, due to the stabbing of his head, face, and left palm.

The third student, Jin, and the parent, Zhang, only suffered minor head injuries.

According to an examination of the First Branch of Shanghai People's Procuratorate, the criminal suspect, Huang Yichuan, male, was unemployed at the time of the attack.