A Chinese court on Wednesday condemned to death a chemicals factory worker who murdered six people in Shanghai over a dispute with his colleagues, local media reported.
The Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court announced the sentence for Fan Jieming, 62, who killed four co-workers, a taxi driver and a guard at a military barracks in June 2013, Shanghai Daily said on its website.
The crimes, committed over a six-hour period, arose from a dispute over how to divide up materials and other assets from the shuttered chemical plant where Fan worked, the newspaper said.
Media reports said Fan used a hunting rifle and a metal pipe in the murders.
Shootings are rare in China, where firearms possession is illegal for individuals.
The newspaper report did not say whether Fan would appeal against the conviction. Under Chinese law, the Supreme People's Court must review death sentences before they can be carried out.