Weapons Knife Suspected perpetrator Yang Qingpei Location Qujing, China Attack type Mass murder | Non-fatal injuries 0 Date 29 September 2016 Total number of deaths 19 Non-fatal injuries 0 | |
Yang Qingpei (born 1989 ) is a Chinese man accused of the mass murder of 19 people. He confessed to killing his parents in an argument over money and then killing 17 neighbours in an attempt to cover up his crime on September 29, 2016, state media reported. The youngest victim of the murderous rampage in a remote village in southwest China was three, the oldest 72. They were members of six families. Suspect Yang Qingpei, aged 28, went to his home village of Yema on Wednesday. He was arrested in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, on Thursday. The Xinhua state news agency report did not say how the villagers were killed. Mass killings are rare in China and access to firearms is tightly controlled. The crime took place in Qujing, Yunnan Province.