Li Yijiang (; born 1980 in
Changji
Changji is a county-level city situated about west of the regional capital, Ürümqi in Northern Xinjiang, China and has about 390,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. At the northeast corner of the modern cit ...
,
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
– August 20, 2004), also known as Li Wenjiang (李文江), was a Chinese
serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A
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who killed seven people in the early 2000s.
Background
Hailing from Changji, Li was admitted to the
Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing Institute of Technology (abbreviated BIT; Simplified Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese: 北京理工大学; Traditional Chinese characters, Traditional Chinese: 北京理工大學; pinyin: Běijīng Lǐgōng Dàxué), is a National u ...
in 1999, majoring in
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
. In the next semester, he began to work part-time. In the second year of his sophomore year, he dropped out of school and was arrested in 2003. He was executed on August 20, 2004.
Li committed his first murder when he was 14. He committed his next crime in 2002. In that year, he was raped by four men and decided to kill them for revenge, killing two others as well. Li's murder method was to cut off the victim's sexual organs. Expert analysis showed that he wasn't cared for during his childhood, and so he went down the murderous path.
Youth
Since childhood, he was raised by grandmother in
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
, and one day he was sent back to his parents in Xinjiang. His mother had been diagnosed with a mental illness, which made her lose her temper, lick things and beat Li at home. During this time, he was scared to be around his mother. After he began to attend high school, his mother's condition was stabilized, but his father began drinking alcohol excessively. Despite Li complaining about this, he was not beaten, but on several occasions his father picked up a kitchen knife and threatened his son.
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See also
* List of serial killers by country
This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the killings occurred.
Convicted serial killers by country Afghanistan
*Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad while serving under ...
References
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1980 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Chinese LGBT people
21st-century Chinese LGBT people
21st-century executions by China
Beijing Institute of Technology alumni
Executed Chinese serial killers
Chinese gay men
People executed by China by firearm
Violence against men in Asia