On November 1, 1991, several gunshots broke the atmosphere of learning in the classroom at the University of Iowa.
The people in the classroom were crying and begging for mercy as they scattered, and the people with guns in their hands were shouting:
Get out of the way, I don't want to kill innocents, I only kill those who deserve to die.
The once peaceful campus suddenly became noisy, and after a gunshot, everything returned to tranquility.
There are a total of six corpses in this case, one of which is Lu Gang.
He is not a rebel, let alone a terrorist attack, when he raised a pistol to kill, he claimed to the outside world that he was just forced to helpless, so he used such an extreme method.
Why would a recent PhD student kill someone with a gun? Why did he finally commit suicide by swallowing a bomb? Who were the five people who were killed? Why did Lu Gang hate them so much that he killed them?
There are a lot of questions, let's reveal them today!
In 1963, a working-class family in Beijing finally hoped for their son, and this "hope" was not an exaggeration at all.
Influenced by feudal thinking, Lu Gang's parents have always believed that there must be a son in the family, and having a son is the real offspring.
Lu Gang's mother gave birth to two daughters one after another, and when they had the third child, the two begged God to worship Buddha, hoping to give birth to a son.
Conceived in October and delivered in one day.
This time, the Lu family finally looked forward to the son they had in mind, and the already patriarchal family showed more obvious after Lu Gang arrived.
The two older sisters were asked from an early age to give up to their younger brother, and if the younger brother liked their things, they had to give it to their younger brother.
Lu Gang has been talking at home since he was a child, living the life of a little bully, no one in the family dares to contradict him, if he is angry, the whole family will coax him, if he is unhappy, then the whole family is not allowed to laugh.
Parents don't think his temper is a problem, in that era, as long as the child studies well, everything is good, although Lu Gang is arrogant, but his grades have always been among the best, and his home is full of various awards.
The teacher once mentioned to the family that Lu Gang's temper needed to be changed, but Lu Gang's parents thought that it was not their son's temper, it was their son's personality.
Geniuses all have personalities, and their sons will definitely become a genius with personalities in the future.
With the connivance of his parents, Lu Gang became more and more self-conscious, and if he was not careful, he would get into the horns of the bull by himself.
He doesn't allow anyone to question himself, even if he's wrong.
In 1981, Lu Gang was successfully admitted to the Department of Physics of Peking University with excellent results.
In college, he still maintained his old temper, black and white, and once things were out of his control, he would rather destroy them than pursue them.
Only then did the parents realize that their son's paranoia had reached the point of no return, and they wanted to discuss the issue with their son, but they were afraid that Lu Gang would drill the horns again, so they had to endure it.
Later, Lu Gang won the scholarship, and his parents completely forgot about it.
They still adhere to the previous concept, a genius, if he does not have his own little personality, then how can he be called a genius?
Genius is to be awkward, to drill the horns, so that you can make achievements.
They believe that although Lu Gang is bound to fight, this kind of character has also achieved the quality of his reluctance to give up easily, which is exactly what scientific research needs.
With the connivance of his parents, Lu Gang grew up with the most wanton attitude, and during college, he successfully passed the physics selection test for international students and got the opportunity to study in the United States.
The 21-year-old traveled to the United States to continue his studies at the University of Iowa.
He studied hard and worked hard, and as his parents said, a person who is more serious about everything will not give up easily when doing research.
He devoted himself to scientific research and learning, and finally made achievements in the field of plasma, you know, there are no more than 300 people engaged in plasma research in the world, and even fewer have made achievements in this industry.
After the first achievements appeared, the famous professor Goerz noticed him.
Because of the widespread racial discrimination in the United States before, they did not take this yellow person into account.
After Lu Gang first showed his talent for physics, everyone had to look at the people in front of him differently. Among the students in the same department, Lu Gang has always been the best one, and he has managed to win the respect of everyone with his hard work and talent.
But he is still withdrawn and unwilling to take the initiative to communicate with others, and others say that he is"You can only watch from afar".
He excludes all people regardless of race, age, or rank.
When the teacher took the initiative to talk to him, he thought that if he didn't talk about his studies, he would be wasting his time.
When his classmates took the initiative to ask him some knowledge points that he didn't understand, he thought that these people had no talent in physics, and they couldn't answer such simple questions, so why should they continue to study.
When the same group of people who came to study abroad with him asked about his current situation, he mocked: "What are you doing with these useless questions, do I have anything to do with you?"
He repeatedly pushed people away, so that everyone "respected him".
But that still doesn't stop him from being a legend of this school, with all A's and full scholarships, and the record he has set so far has not been broken.
His parents could tolerate his character flaws, but others couldn't.
When I first moved into the graduate dormitory, my roommates arranged a duty schedule to facilitate the management and cleaning of the dormitory.
But Lu Gang was reluctant to get involved, not only did he not clean himself, but he also often made a lot of garbage to put in the public area.
Later, the roommate couldn't bear it anymore, and after saying a few words to him, he directly threw his roommate's things on the ground and kicked them out of the dormitory.
After coming and going, no one wanted to live with him anymore, and his dormitory eventually became a "single dormitory".
Just when everyone thought that his living in a single dormitory would stop a little, what he did angered everyone again.
For his own convenience, he often uses high-power electrical appliances in the dormitory, so that the dormitory building often has power outages.
When it was hot in the summer, he had to ice a lot of ice water every day, which took up more than half of the public refrigerator, and other people's things could not be placed.
When he wants to put something, if there is no space in the refrigerator, he will take out other people's things and put his own things in without the permission of others.
This kind of behavior has aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, but Lu Gang thinks that he is not wrong, but those people have a problem.
In terms of academic research, he has always maintained a self-respecting attitude, and he has always disdained to answer the questions pointed out by his mentor, or even take them seriously.
Even if Professor Goertz has a good temper, he can't stand him, everyone knows that all kinds of studies after graduating from university, whether they are graduate or doctoral students, are inseparable from the help of their supervisors, but Lu Gang turned away his mentors.
He believes that all the questions asked by his supervisor are aimed at finding a way to steal his research in another way.
Because of his own behavior, he has become a boring existence in the eyes of most people.
At that time, the only one in the school who had always been friendly to him was Shan Linhua, who was also a publicly-funded international student who was two years younger than him.
Shan Linhua is both his junior brother and his roommate, out of friendliness, he often takes the initiative to show affection, but Lu Gang doesn't care about Shan Linhua's overtures, he thinks that the person in front of him is just hugging his thigh.
After Shan Linhua learned his true thoughts in his heart, he just smiled calmly and was unwilling to deal with him.
Completely different from Lu Gang, Shan Linhua was born in a poor family, and he studied hard to change the status quo and give his parents a better life.
Although Shan Linhua's parents are not highly educated, they know the importance of learning and that learning is the best way for the underclass to get rid of poverty.
They spend most of their savings for their children's education in the hope that they will one day be able to get out of the current situation.
Shan Linhua also knows that his parents are not easy, he studies hard, and his grades have always been among the best.
In 1987, he successfully won a place to study abroad at public expense through a physics knowledge competition.
Different from Lu Gang's arrogance, Shanlinhua is very humble, he has always been kind to others, took the initiative to help others, and became the most popular among international students.
Coincidentally, his mentor was also Professor Golds.
Professor Goerz attaches great importance to him, and Shan Linhua also lives up to everyone's expectations, successfully jumping a few levels in a row, and once caught up with Lu Gang's progress.
But Lu Gang is still very disdainful of him, even if Shan Linhua's academic achievements are comparable to him, he still thinks that Shan Linhua is a despicable villain who can only please others, and he will not do anything except flattery.
In his eyes, Shanlinhua's kindness to others is cowardice and despicability.
He never took Shan Linhua's academic achievements seriously, he thought that these were all obtained by his flattery to professors.
He prides himself on being the first in physics and disdains to make friends with other people, believing that his grades are at the top and that others can only be his own subordinates.
What he didn't expect was that Shan Linhua, a junior school brother who entered two years later than him, tied for first place with him in the final exam.
After the final exam results were announced, Lu Gang's pride became a joke, and he no longer had the conditions for pride.
Lu Gang thought that the reason why Shan Linhua took the first place was to humiliate himself and break his self-esteem.
From then on, he began to resent Shan Linhua.
Resentment this person stole everyone's admiration for him, resentment this person snatched the first place that belonged to him.
He secretly vowed that he must regain his first place and let everyone know that he is a legendary existence, an existence that no one else can match.
He is seriously preparing for his Ph.D. graduation and wants to win the best in one fell swoop.
Perhaps because he was too anxious, Lu Gang, who has always been cautious, made many mistakes in the writing process of this **.
After being pointed out as a mistake, he did not correct it immediately, but instead started a debate with the professor and associate professor.
He doesn't think he's wrong.
The professor was reluctant to deal with him anymore and gave him a chance to correct himself.
But what I didn't expect was that Lu Gang still went his own way, and he did not correct it according to the previous guidance of the professor and associate professor.
At the time of the graduation defense, his ** still made a lot of mistakes, the defense was unqualified, and what was waiting for him was a year of delay.
He couldn't accept that a genius like himself had been extended, and before he could digest his sadness, something happened that made him even sadder - Shan Linhua won the best ** award.
After learning the news, he began to think crankily.
He thinks that his ** is not wrong at all, it is the professor and associate professor who are nitpicking and picking bones in the egg.
The purpose is to make it impossible for his ** to submit on time, so that Shanlinhua can win the award.
He didn't think that this was his own failure, but instead attributed his failure to a conspiracy planned against him by professors, associate professors, and Shan Linhua.
In the year that Lu had just graduated, Shan Linhua accepted the invitation of his supervisor to continue his postdoctoral studies.
It is normal for an excellent physics genius to be left by his tutor to continue studying, but in Lu Gang's eyes, this incident has become evidence that the three of them jointly grabbed his scholarship.
Since then, Lu Gang has regarded Shanlinhua as a thorn in his eye, a thorn in his flesh, and everything will surpass him.
He firmly believes that although he is falling behind now, he will definitely catch up in the future, and he will definitely be better than him when he is studying for a postdoctoral degree.
A year later, he successfully completed his Ph.D. graduation**.
But what he didn't expect was that no supervisor offered to keep him and let him continue his postdoctoral studies.
Lu Gang blamed all this on Shan Linhua, he thought that Shan Linhua ruined everything for him, he was a clown who only flattered in the TV series, and he was a villain.
And his mentor, Professor Golds and Associate Professor Smith, is a mediocre person who blindly indulges bad guys.
He thinks that he has been shrouded in the darkness of capital, and he wants to break through the darkness at all costs.
He wrote down the "indictments" and submitted them to the three people he thought were guilty.
The first person to receive this "indictment" was the head of the department, Nicholson, who took the matter very seriously and hurriedly discussed it with the president and vice president.
Immediately after that, the school launched an investigation into this matter, and after some investigation, the school found that the so-called "indictment" was groundless, groundless, and even nonsense.
What the two professors did was in line with the process, and everything Shan Linhua now had was also obtained by his own ability, and after the school gave a reasonable explanation and evidence, Lu Gang still did not accept it, he thought that the school was protecting them.
The emotional Lu Gang believes that since he can't find his own fairness through legal channels, he has to use extreme methods to solve all this.
He first sent a letter to his family, in which he wrote down all his inner thoughts.
He first asked his sister to help take care of his parents, and then wrote that he thought it was very dark and that he wanted to clear the darkness.
At the end of the letter, he pointed out that he could have had a glorious future, but it was his parents' low education and status that caused him to be what he is now, which is the problem of his parents.
After saying goodbye, the scene mentioned at the beginning of the article happened.
Lu Gang shot at six people, namely Shan Linhua, Professor Golds and Associate Professor Smith, Department Chair Nicholson, Vice President Anne Clearey, and Student Secretary Syerson.
Luckily, Silson was shot once and missed, and survived.
He was supposed to be the pride of the sky and an existence that everyone was proud of, but in the end he completely fell into the abyss because of his paranoia.
He has always been proud and arrogant, but he may have forgotten that "there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky"!