Bai Baoshan ( zh, s=白宝山; November 6, 1958 – April 1998) was a Chinese

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who killed 15 people.

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Bai Baoshan committed his first crime in 1983, serving 13 years of a 15-year sentence in prison for

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and

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. After being released on March 7, 1996, he sought revenge on authorities, and on 31 March 1996, he attacked the guard at a power station in

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. Using a semi-automatic firearm previously stolen from a police officer, Bai injured two civilians and four others badly. The police suspected him of robbing and murdering a cigarette dealer. In

Hebei Province Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

, he raided a military base, killing a soldier and taking his automatic rifle with him. Bai later robbed and killed a cigarette dealer and injured three others near

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in Beijing in December 1996. In

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, together with another accomplice Wu Ziming, he killed a total of ten more people, including 2 policemen, and stole 1.4 million

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. When there was a dispute over the spoils, he shot Wu at Tianchi on 26 August 1997. On 5 September 1997, Bai was arrested at his home in Beijing. Since he had committed most of his actions in the Xinjiang region, he was transferred there on 3 December 1997 and charged with, among other things, 14 charges of murder. After being convicted on all counts and sentenced to death, he was executed in April 1998 in Xinjiang by shooting.

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* Murakami, Peter and Julia: ''Encyclopedia of serial killers: 450 case studies of a pathological killing type.'' 7th edition, Ullstein paperback,

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