The Yongzhou courthouse shooting (Hanzi: ) occurred on 1 June 2010 when 46-year-old Zhu Jun (朱军), armed with a submachine gun

Submachine gun

A submachine gun is an automatic carbine, designed to fire pistol cartridges. It combines the automatic fire of a machine gun with the cartridge of a pistol. The submachine gun was invented during World War I , but the apex of its use was during World War II when millions of the weapon type were...

 and 2 other weapons, entered the Lingling District People's Court (零陵区法院) in Yongzhou

Yongzhou

Yongzhou is a prefecture-level city in the Hunan province of China.YongZhou is located in the central and south of China, on the southern side of Xiang River, which is formed by the confluence of the Xiao and Xiang rivers. Yongzhou is one of the four ancient counties in Hunan; it is 2000 years old...

, Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

 and randomly killed 3 judicial workers who happened to be at work at an office on the 4th floor.

Events

On 1 June 2010 just before 10:00am, Zhu Jun (朱军) entered the courthouse and randomly shot at people. The attack resulted in 3 deaths (presiding judge Zhao Hulin, deputy chief judge Jiang Qidong, and court clerk Huang Lan) and 3 injured persons. The victims were not discussing the case of the assailant.Zhu killed himself

Suicide

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 after the incident.

Zhu was apparently angry at the Chinese justice system

Judicial system of the People's Republic of China

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 about the results of his divorce

Divorce

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 settlement. He had a son, and had separated from his wife 3 years previous to the incident.

Zhu worked as the head of security at the Lingling District

Lingling District

Lingling Districtis a district that constitutes the southern half of Yongzhou county in the north of Yongzhou prefecture in Hunan, China. It is under the administration of Yongzhou city.-References:*...

 post office, and had obtained the weapons from post office security personnel by pretending that he needed to take them to be examined.

Censored

News of the attack was subject to internet censorship in the People's Republic of China

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. The Chinese Government

Government of the People's Republic of China

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 ordered the major news portals to remove mentions of the incident, citing fear of copycat crime. For example, Baidu

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's Zhidao page on the incident was taken down.