2013 Shanghai shooting

On 22 June 2013, a spree killing occurred in Shanghai, China, resulting in six deaths and four injuries. The perpetrator, later identified as 62-year-old Fan Jieming, was the security manager of the Guangyu fine chemical company in Shanghai's Baoshan District and a military veteran.

According to the Wikipedia account, the attack began when Fan fatally beat a coworker at the Guangyu fine chemical company in Baoshan. He then retrieved a hunting rifle he had hidden in his dormitory. Fan hired a taxi to drive him to Pudong District; when the cab stopped there, he shot and killed the driver and drove the vehicle back to Baoshan. Once back in Baoshan, he shot and killed a soldier who was guarding the entrance to a barracks and stole the soldier's weapon. Fan then returned to the chemical factory, where he shot and killed three more people, including a manager who may also have been one of the factory's owners. He was apprehended following this final attack at the factory.

Shanghai police indicated that the rampage may have been motivated by an economic dispute, though this was described as a possible rather than confirmed motive.

Fan Jieming was tried and, on 29 June 2015, was convicted on six counts of murder along with charges of attempted murder, robbery, and robbery of firearms. He was sentenced to death. Fan was executed in June 2016.

This case involved multiple locations and weapons obtained during the course of the attack, including a hunting rifle and a firearm taken from a soldier. The Wikipedia article cites contemporaneous news coverage from The Guardian and Fox News published in the days immediately following the attack in June 2013, though the specific factual content of those reports is not reproduced here; only the Wikipedia article's text has been used to source the narrative details above.

This dossier is based on a single detailed source (Wikipedia) describing the sequence of events, the perpetrator's identity, and the legal outcome. The two additional references are contemporaneous news articles cited by the Wikipedia entry but whose full text was not available for independent verification of details in this dossier.