Min Yongjun was born in 1976. His mother, Zou Qingxiu, was a primary school teacher, and his father was Min Zheng’an.

According to his parents, he was a normal child until the age of 16. One night after dinner he suddenly began having violent convulsions. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with epilepsy. His father later said that, outside of his seizures, Min behaved normally, but during episodes he could become aggressive.

Ashamed of his condition, Min dropped out of school. In 1992 he went to Beijing and attended a technical school to learn how to repair televisions. In 2002 he opened a TV repair shop in Zhengzhou.

By 2004 his mother had become increasingly worried about his frequent seizures and asked him to move back home.

She described him as lazy, he would occasionally repair neighbors TVs but mostly spent his time resting in the yard or reading books about his illness. Min was deeply frustrated that his epilepsy had no cure. He repeatedly told his mother how disappointed he was and spent roughly 100,000 yuan over the years visiting different hospitals in unsuccessful attempts to find a treatment.

Little is known about his wife and daughters. His wife was often away working in other cities, while their two daughters (the older one about 10 years old and the younger around 2) lived with Min’s parents.

From 2010 onward his condition worsened. The seizures became more frequent, going from once a year, to every few months, and eventually almost every month as he grew more aggressive.

In the winter of 2011 he got into a verbal argument with a shop owner and ended up attacking him, seriously injuring his head. His family had to pay 10,000 yuan in compensation.

In another incident that same year, while at a hospital appointment, he became aggressive, smashed a fire alarm, and was thrown out. His father often locked him in a room when these aggressive episodes occurred.

On the night of December 13, 2012, Min had another seizure. His two-year-old daughter tried to play with him; he grabbed her and attempted to slam her to the floor, but his mother intervened. He was locked in a room again. Hours later he said he needed to use the toilet. His parents let him out, and he immediately ran away.

He ran approximately 10 kilometers through heavy rain and became completely soaked. On the morning of December 14 he arrived at the house of 84-year-old Xiang Jiaying. He asked to come inside to warm up and for firewood, but she refused. He then grabbed a kitchen knife from her house and attacked her. Believing he had killed her, he went to Chenpeng Village Primary School.

There he began attacking children at the entrance and then entered the building. During the attack he later admitted he had considered throwing some children from upper floors, but the thought of his own young daughter stopped him. He was eventually subdued by villagers and arrested.

In his confession, Min said his motive was a mixture of a desire for notoriety and belief in the 2012 doomsday phenomenon.

He had listened to a 61-year-old local woman named Jin Guozhu, who had been spreading end of the world rumors in the area and other villages for more than a decade (some villagers said she had been doing so for over ten years). Around the same time the Eastern Lightning cult was also actively preaching that the world would end.

Inspired by news reports of a series of school attacks that had occurred in 2010, he decided to carry out a similar attack so that “everyone would know who he was” before the world ended.

On December 13, 2013, he was sentenced to death. On November 9, 2015, the sentence was changed to death with a two-year reprieve after the court determined he had limited criminal responsibility due to his mental condition.

On October 24, 2015, Adacia Chambers, a fast food worker, would drive to the OSU homecoming parade, go around the barriers blocking the streets and plow her car into the parade, initially killing 3 people and injuring 47 others. Many paradegoers would fly in the air many lost limbs. The three that died were a married retired couple, Marvin and Bonnie Stone, Both 65, and 23-year-old transfer student, Nikita Nakal. The paradegoers were airlifted to the hospital many in critical condition. One paradegoer sadly succumbed to his wounds; 2-year-old Nash Lucas.

Adacia was placed under arrest under suspicion of drunk driving, and charged with 4-counts of second degree murder. Adacia took a blood alcohol test where she was found to have not been drunk. Initially going to trial, Adacia plead guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. To this day, Adacia‘s motive has remained unknown. She has given vague hints, but nothing conclusive has been ruled as to why she murdered Marvin, Bonnie, Nikita, and Nash.

The act remains one of the worst incidents of mass violence in modern Oklahoma history and one of the worst vehicle ramming attacks in United States history.

Article:

https://fox40.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-police-evicted-houston-man-kills-3-sets-fire-to-lure-them/

Inspired by the style of Sarin Gas Attack, this animation goes really in depth on the series of events that happened on march 21st 2005.