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Gang Lu |
VICTIMS: 5 |
It was November 1, 1991, at around 3.40 pm when Gang Lu made his mark. He purposefully walked up to a group of professors and students at the University of Iowa and proceeded to kill four of them. Before they victims even had time to understand what was going on the gunman was on the run. He headed toward the main administration building of the campus where he shot and injured the assistant vice president and her assistant. One of these woman died the next day in hospital. When campus police finally arrived on the scene of the shootings they found the Gang Lu, the gunman, dead. He had put a bullet into his own head. Next to his body was the murder weapon, and inside a jacket pocket was another gun, a .22 pistol, that had not been fired. When police looked into the killers background they discovered an almost brilliant student. Gang Lu had come to the school from China. He was apparently quiet amazing when it came to theoretical space physics, but it was because of this subject that he had acted out with such violence against his fellow students and professors. Gang Lu had recently been passed over for a cash prize of $1000, and when we look at the victims and their relation to the awarding of this prize we see that Gang Lu was very methodical in his targeting of his victims, which makes this case particularly interesting. The first victims was the chairman of the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University. The second was a professor at the same Department. Th third was a researcher at the same department, and the forth was a fellow Chinese immigrant, Linhua Shan. It was Shan who had won the $1000 that Gang Lu believed should have gone to him. The others where all involved in the judging of this prize. When police Gang Lu’s personal effects they found a heap of letters he had written. All were addressed to various news agencies, both in English and Chinese, and told of his prior planning of the massacre, and also contained the names of others he was hoping to add to his ‘kill list’. Unfortunately for Gang Lu he could only erase five of these people before taking his own life. |
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MY OPINION Gang Lu always makes me laugh. Amongst those close to me we always use the term, “Pull a Gang Lu” when discussing mass murder. I think he was just a real nutcase, and he’s always made us all laugh. The fact that he was a really serious guy adds to the enjoyment of the tale. It always makes me laugh when these people that take everything so bloody seriously snap. They make the nuttiest killers, I wish more went that way. It would really brighten up my days. |
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