‘I wanted to kill’: jobless man in China who hurled brick from high-rise that took life of woman wants to be executed to end miserable life
- High-rise brick hurling man tells court he aimed to take life
- As court considers verdict, prosecutors call for death penalty
A jobless man in China who hurled bricks from a high-rise building – one of which killed a woman on the street below – should be given the death penalty, prosecutors say.
The man has admitted he had a grudge against society and was trying to kill indiscriminately so that he would be arrested and executed, according to a report by the news outlet cqcb.com.
The tragedy happened on June 22 when the 28-year-old victim travelled to Changchun in China’s northeastern province of Jilin and visited a bustling snack street.
However, a brick thrown from a high-rise residential building struck her on the head.
The woman, surnamed Lou, collapsed at the scene and was declared dead in the ambulance on the way to hospital, the report said.
The 23-year-old culprit, surnamed Zhou, lived in a rented flat in the high-rise building, turned himself in to the police soon after the incident.