On the evening of March 19, a sentry at the gate post of an army unit under Chengdu Military Region headquartered in Shiqiaopu, Chongqing, was shot and killed by a gunman. The assailant fled with a semi-automatic rifle after the attack. Police in Chongqing have obtained a frame from a video recording taken at the scene and are now conducting house-to-house investigations to gather more clues to solve the case. In the frame, the man is about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a woolen hat that exposes only his eyes.
The victimized soldier was only 19 years old
By the evening of March 21, at the site where the "3·19" gunæ¢snatching incident happened - the gate post of a military unit in Chongqing -, the number of sentries on duty at the gate has increased from two to five. In front of the gatepost, people still come and go on the road. Occasionally customers visit stalls selling barbecues and fruits.