It is understood that the case is still under further trial. (完) After seeing the robbery, Cui Zhiqiang quietly approached the man and started to negotiate with him. Taking him by surprise, he wrestled the man to the ground. Subsequently, three security guards quickly rushed over, controlled the man, and seized the cleaver. Soon after, the 110 police officers who arrived on the scene took the man away.
The surveillance showed that due to the strong bulletproof glass installed at the bank counter, the suspect holding the cleaver could not break in, so he became furious and rampaged around the empty hall. Afterwards, several bank security guards used chairs as weapons and negotiated with the man, attempting to subdue him.
According to the bank's surveillance footage, at around 3 PM on February 19, a man holding a cleaver hurriedly entered the lobby of the Jinzhong branch of the Construction Bank.
"At first, it didn't catch many people's attention until he shouted 'robbery' while fiercely chopping at the counter with the cleaver. Then everyone realized that this man with the cleaver was robbing the bank," a staff member recounted the situation at the time.
After the man "revealed his intentions," the bank security immediately evacuated the citizens conducting business in the hall. Meanwhile, a bank teller pressed the alarm button and stored the cash into the safe.
At 1 PM on March 1, Song Lichao reported from Taiyuan that neither the employees nor the customers noticed this man before he violently chopped at the bulletproof glass. Just four minutes later, the man was subdued by the joint efforts of the bank security and the police officers. On the 1st day, I learned from the Jinzhong police in Shanxi Province that this bold man who attempted to rob the bank with a cleaver has been criminally detained.
When the officer passed by the bank door that afternoon, originally out shopping, Officer Cui Zhiqiang from the Jinzhong Public Security Bureau saw nearly a hundred people gathered around and thus detoured into the business hall through the ATM entrance. Upon entering, he heard the man continuously shouting, "I'll chop you to death, I'll chop you to death" while waving the cleaver at the security guards.