In Guangdong Province, a tragic incident occurred in a village in Lianjiang three months ago, where three generations of a family were killed. However, the event was only recently exposed to the public.
According to a report by mainland Chinese media “Yangzi Evening News” on June 20, on March 27, a villager named Ye in a village in Lianjiang, Guangdong, entered a neighbor’s house at night and brutally killed three family members who were at home. The victims were a 70-year-old grandmother, a younger sister in her thirties, and her two-year-old nephew, according to a family member of the victims, Ms. Ye.
A neighbor who arrived first on the scene at the time stated that the perpetrator first attacked Ms. Ye’s younger sister, then went on to attack Ms. Ye’s mother and her sister’s child. “Fortunately, my sister’s two-month-old baby was sleeping in the room and escaped unharmed. Finally, a few young men came over and pulled the perpetrator away.”
Ms. Ye described the perpetrator as a male around 40 years old, saying, “He is not only a fellow villager but also a neighbor, and our homes are only two to three hundred meters apart. He used to sit at the same desk with my brother when he was in school. There was no enmity between our families.”
After the incident, the suspect Ye was diagnosed by the police as having schizophrenia and was assessed as having limited criminal responsibility. However, the family members of the victims questioned the assessment, stating that they had never heard of any villagers in the same village suffering from mental illness for so many years.
Ms. Ye said, “We have been living in the same village for decades, and no one in the whole village knew that the perpetrator had a mental illness. It is only now after the incident that they say he has a mental illness, and the prosecutor’s office even told us that the perpetrator has been taking medication for five years.”
The police response also indicated that on March 28, the suspect Ye was criminally detained for allegedly destroying evidence. Ms. Ye claimed that Ye is the father of the perpetrator Ye and that after the incident, he helped his son throw the kitchen knife into a fish pond.
The report mentioned that the case was transferred to the Lianjiang City Prosecutor’s Office for review and prosecution on April 27.