Red Star News.
On December 13, the Red Star News reporter learned from the family of the victim of the case of "the girl was hit by a brick thrown from a high altitude and died" that the case was pronounced in the Changchun Intermediate People's Court this morningThe first trial sentenced the defendant Zhou to death and deprived him of his political rights for life. Defendant Zhou did not appeal in court, expressing acceptance of this result.
The scene of the death caused by high-altitude throwing in Changchun Wanda Night Market. Screenshot of the online transmission**.
Ms. Lou, the sister of the victim Xiao Lou, told the Red Star News reporter that on the one hand, she would like to thank the local judicial authorities and her sister's legal colleagues for allowing the criminal to get the punishment he deserves, and seeking the first step of fairness and justice for her sister.
"On the other hand, my heart is also very entangled and painful, this criminal is bent on death, and now his purpose has been achieved, and all of us are like pawns in his hands, teased by him. ”
Ms. Lou told reporters that Zhou accepted the verdict very calmly, and even entered the courtroom with a smile.
Ms. Lou cried to the Red Star News reporter in **, saying that this was a tragedy that could have been avoided. "We learned a lot of details during the trialIn the days before Zhou threw bricks to kill my sister, he threw more than a dozen objects in the air, and some of the victims who were smashed went to report the case, but Zhou was never found. Although this verdict is what we are pursuing, how good it would be if this thing didn't happen, and how good it would be if Zhou was stopped in the middle of so many high-altitude projectiles!”
Ms. Lou said that when the verdict was announced, the defendant Zhou's mother cried, which immediately reminded her of her own mother, "A murderer was sentenced to death, his mother is so sad, how painful my mother will be, and the excellent daughter she has cultivated with her life's energy was stoned to death on the street for no reason." ”
Xiao Lou. Ms. Lou said that her parents, who had been bedridden since her sister's accident, were devastated and trembled when they heard that she was going to Changchun to deal with the matter. ”
Ms. Lou said that the next step is to investigate the legal responsibility of other relevant responsible parties.
It is reported that the Changchun City Procuratorate alleged that the defendant Zhou, because he could not support himself, became disgusted with the world and hated society, so he premeditated to throw bricks and other items from high-rise buildings many times in order to harm the lives of unspecified people on the ground. From 21:00 to 23:00 on June 22, 2023, Zhou successively threw eight bricks at the ground crowd at the window of the corridor and the roof of an apartment on the 32nd floor of an apartment on Hongqi Street, Chaoyang District, Chaoyang District, and one of the bricks hit the forehead of the victim Xiao Lou.
Prior to this, at about 16:30 on June 17, 2023, Zhou threw two buckets of 5-liter bottled water from the window of room 3310 of an apartment on Hongqi Street in this city, one of which hit the shoulder, fingers, and legs of the victim DongAt about 22:40 on the same day, Zhou threw three cans of unopened Coke in the room again, one of which hit the victim Song's forehead.
Forensic psychiatric evaluation: Defendant Zhou was not mentally ill at the time of the case;Have full capacity for criminal responsibility. After the case was discovered, the defendant voluntarily surrendered, and the procuratorate prosecuted him for the crime of "endangering public safety by endangering public safety by endangering the law."
Red Star News previously reported that on November 27, the first instance of the case was tried in the Changchun Intermediate People's Court, and the prosecution prosecuted the defendant Zhou for the crime of "endangering public safety by dangerous means", and the defendant admitted all his crimes during the trial.
Ms. Lou, a family member of the victim, told reporters that the focus of the dispute between the prosecution and defense in court was what the defendant's purpose was in doing this kind of thing (throwing objects from high altitudes many times). "He threw things from the upper floors one after another a few days before [the crime], and on the day of the crime, he threw eight bricks in two time periods. He also said he hoped he would be sentenced to death. ”
Ms. Lou told reporters that the public prosecution's sentencing recommendation for the defendant was to sentence the defendant to death and deprive him of political rights for life. Ms. Lou said that the prosecution deeply and meticulously analyzed and excavated the defendant's mentality and purpose of committing the crime, as well as the motive of committing the crime, "The prosecution said in court that he chose an uncertain group of people to attack as the target, and he knew that the downstairs was a very large night market square, and he also chose a large amount of time period." Ms. Lou said that the defendant Zhou expressed his desire to be sentenced to death, but did not express remorse in court.
Ms. Lou said that the trial made her feel the fairness and justice of the law, the importance that the public prosecution attaches to this case, the indignation at the extremely bad incident, and the determination to deal with this kind of behavior, "We are very grateful to the public prosecution agency." ”
Ms. Lou said that the next step is for the victim's relatives to prepare to sue the property, the night market and other relevant responsible parties, "My sister has chosen the law as her own career, and we want to help her go down this road, if they don't prosecute, they will not realize the social responsibility they should bear, we want them to know how to do their duty, but also to give the whole society a wake-up call." ”
On the evening of June 22 this year, Ms. Lou's sister Xiao Lou died after being hit by a brick thrown from a high altitude in the snack street of the aforementioned Wanda Plaza Night Market. Witnesses told reporters that the man had thrown bricks and drink bottles three times that day of the incident, a few hours before June 22.
On July 24, the Red Star News reporter learned from Ms. Lou that ** had conducted a psychiatric evaluation of the suspect Zhou. An appraisal opinion notice issued by ** shows that the mental state of the suspect Zhou at the time of the case was not mentally ill, and the capacity for criminal responsibility at the time of the case was assessed as full capacity for criminal responsibility.
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