□ There were still a large amount of blood stains on the glass door of the shop where the incident occurred. Morning Post reporter Wu Lei and intern Xiao Yun took pictures at the scene.
□ Morning Post reporter Ni Dong and intern Yang Sichun
At around 3 p.m. yesterday, at the intersection of Gaoling Road and Taopu Road in Putuo District, a female cashier of a convenience store rushed out of the shop and ran for about five or six meters before collapsing on the sidewalk outside the shop. The doctor said: "The girl had no less than 20 knife wounds on her head, neck, chest abdomen, and back; the most dangerous one was only one or two millimeters away from the carotid artery."
The person who slashed the girl was her boyfriend she met online - this man was captured by teachers and students of Caoyang Vocational and Technical School while escaping after the crime.
The victim's injuries were too severe for her to shout for help
Mr. Yao's fruit shop is next to the convenience store where the incident happened. At 3 p.m. yesterday, Mr. Yao was sitting under the shade of a tree across the street cooling off when he suddenly saw Lingling (a pseudonym), the cashier of the neighboring convenience store, rush out of the shop and collapse on his fruit shop doorstep after running just a few steps.
Mr. Yao was startled and rushed across the street. He then saw that Lingling's face and neck were covered with blood, and a kitchen knife was lying beside her. At this time, a man in black clothes rushed out of the convenience store and fled eastward along Taopu Road. A few people who looked like students saw this and chased after him.
Mr. Yao thought "saving lives was urgent," so he stopped a passerby, borrowed a phone to call 120, and then called 110. Mr. Yao recalled that Lingling never shouted for help loudly throughout the entire process, probably because her injuries were too severe.
A student kicked down the murderer
In addition to Mr. Yao, Teacher Chen from Caoyang Vocational and Technical School and several students also witnessed this scene while leaving school.
Seeing the man in black clothes escape, they chased after him all the way. Zhang classmate was running at the front, and as he caught up, he gave the man in black clothes a kick, knocking him to the ground. Teacher Chen, who followed closely behind, pounced forward and pinned the man down. "After being kicked down, he still had a handful of money in his hand, which later scattered everywhere." Teacher Chen instructed the students who arrived subsequently to call 110 to report the crime. He heard the man in black say: "You can beat me to death, I don't want to live anymore, I killed my girlfriend..."
After the police arrived, Teacher Chen and the students handed over this man to the police officers. At this point, Teacher Chen noticed that this man was slim, about 1.5 to 1.6 meters tall. He heard the onlookers say that the money the man in black scattered was taken from the convenience store, amounting to about one or two thousand yuan.
Teacher Chen is the deputy director of the Student Affairs Office at Caoyang Vocational School. At 38 years old, he used to be a physical education teacher. At around 8 p.m. last night, he told reporters over the phone that the students who participated in capturing the criminal deeply moved him: "I have been doing student work for eight or nine years. To be honest, these students are only sixteen or seventeen years old and are quite mischievous normally, but I didn't expect them to be so brave when encountering criminals."
The knife wound was only a hairbreadth away from the carotid artery
The scene of the case is only separated by a wall from Liqueun Hospital. "As soon as the girl was sent to the hospital, she was directly taken into the emergency room. She had knife wounds on her head, neck, chest abdomen, and back, with no fewer than 20 wounds of varying sizes. There was a long cut on her face, and the most dangerous wound was on her neck, which was only one or two millimeters away from the artery." The doctor said that if the carotid artery had been injured, she probably wouldn't have survived.
Even though the carotid artery wasn't injured, the girl's blood pressure once dropped to 40. After more than an hour of emergency treatment, she finally regained consciousness and was transferred to the intensive care unit. After regaining consciousness, the girl indicated that the man who slashed her was someone she met online.
Last night, the police stated that the case was still under further investigation.