Chongqing shooting

The Chongqing shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Chongqing, China on 5 April 1993. Chen Xuerong, (surname written as Chinese: 程) a worker at the Chongqing machine factory, who was angered by a mistake on his timesheet, armed himself with a hunting rifle and searched for his boss with the intent to kill him, but upon finding that the latter was not present he shot dead three of his co-workers.^{[citation needed]}

Chongqing shooting
Location	Chongqing, China
Coordinates	29.610°N 106.389°E / 29.610; 106.389
Date	5 April 1993
Attack type	Mass murder, mass shooting, murder-suicide, spree shooting
Weapons	Hunting rifle
Deaths	9 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	3
Perpetrator	Chen Xuerong

Pursued by security guards, Chen escaped the factory grounds by jumping over a wall, and once out on the street fired at a family of four passing by on a motorcycle with sidecar, fatally hitting a man and two women, and wounding the fourth.^{[citation needed]} He next injured a soldier in a van, and then killed another man, on whose bike he fled. At a junction Chen stopped and hijacked a taxi, after killing the driver, and injuring his passenger, and eventually killed himself by driving down a 30-meters deep ravine, about 40 minutes after firing his first shots.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}