According to witnesses, the entire attack lasted about 3 minutes. The police subsequently arrived and sent the woman to the hospital by police car.
A nearby store owner introduced that after the woman fell to the ground, she still tightly protected the baby in her arms. Due to excessive force, the man's hammer fell to the ground (at this point, many citizens were already holding his arm), then he took out a fruit knife and tried to stab the woman. The woman shouted "Quickly take my daughter away, save the child...". At this moment, a strong man stepped forward and firmly held the man's hand with the knife. After breaking free, the man fled the scene.
On the morning of November 15th, a tragedy occurred on the streets of Xiaguan District in Nanjing. A young man with an iron hammer and a sharp knife chased a young woman who was holding an infant. After catching up, the man hit the woman's head three times with the hammer, and the woman fell into a pool of blood. The man then attempted to stab her but was stopped by a citizen who grabbed the knife, and the man immediately fled.
The reporter learned from the police yesterday that the attacker has been captured, and the injured woman has been saved and is no longer in danger.
In September this year, after two months of "romance," Yu brought Yang back to his home in Fujian. He told his parents that he had brought his "wife" back. Yu's family hosted several tables of wedding banquet for relatives and friends. According to local customs, after the "wedding banquet," even without a marriage certificate, they were considered married. But it seemed that Yang did not understand the "meaning" of this wedding banquet; in her eyes, it was just a big meal.
Investigative officers found that Yu (male, 33 years old, from Fujian) had no relatives or friends in Nanjing, all his family members were in Fujian Province, except for one good friend who was working in Shanghai. It was highly possible that Yu had fled to Shanghai. On November 19th, with the assistance of the Shanghai police, the Xiaguan police captured Yu while he was online at an internet cafe in Xuhui District, Shanghai. He immediately confessed to the crime of injuring Yang with an iron hammer on the 15th.
After committing the crime, Yu took a taxi away from the scene. He thought he had killed someone and was very afraid, so he asked the taxi to drive to the riverbank where he planned to drown himself. Yu stayed by the river for more than 3 hours, but eventually decided not to die. He walked to Nanjing train station and boarded a train to Shanghai in the afternoon, planning to seek refuge with his friend in Shanghai. However, he was caught in less than 4 days.
"At that time, that man hammered the woman's head three times, peeling off the woman's scalp, and several strands of hair fell to the ground," said a witness. The victim ran to the entrance of a nearby kindergarten, still holding a 2-year-old girl. The man followed and grabbed the woman by the hair, dragging her from the kindergarten to a shoe store, dragging her for over 20 meters. The man then smashed the woman's head with an iron hammer. The first blow struck the back of the woman's head, and she immediately collapsed in a pool of blood, but the man did not stop, hitting her head twice more.
Dragging the woman violently and smashing her head three times on the street
Under broad daylight, the street violence was heinous, and the Xiaguan police of Nanjing immediately formed a special investigation team to start the investigation. The investigating officer extracted the iron hammer left behind by the assailant at the scene. It was introduced that the victim surnamed Yang, from Nanjing, lived near the crime scene and was divorced. After being rescued by the hospital, she had escaped life-threatening danger. The police learned that Yang had disputes over marriage with a man surnamed Yu. Before the incident, the two had multiple conflicts, and Yu once threatened to retaliate against Yang. Therefore, the police immediately launched a manhunt for him.
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Meeting in a mahjong parlor, arranging a "wedding banquet" in their hometown
Yu confessed that he was single and had no job, living a vagrant life. In July this year, Yu came to Nanjing and relied on a fellow townsman who ran a mahjong parlor in Xiaguan. During this period, he met Yang, who often came to play mahjong. Yang was young and beautiful, and after some ambiguous interaction, Yu confessed his feelings to Yang. Yang said that she was a divorced woman and didn't deserve Yu. However, Yu was determined about Yang.