Chinese toddler dies after parking space row

[Desire]

Chinese toddler, 2, dies after being pulled out of her pram and thrown to the ground by a man in a row over a parking space

• The attacker, named only as Han, wanted to park his car at a bus stop
• The mother was tending to her daughter and would not immediately move
• She and her child were attacked by Han, the driver, and his passenger
• Han, a convicted thief, could face the death penalty if charged with murder
  

By HELEN LAWSON PUBLISHED: 17:04 GMT, 27 July 2013 | UPDATED: 17:04 GMT, 27 July 2013

A two-year-old girl has died after being pulled out of her pram and thrown to the ground by a man during a row with her mother over a parking space.The Chinese toddler suffered critical injuries in the attack on Tuesday and died two days later after being kept alive by a respirator in a Beijing hospital. The man, named only as Han, wanted to park his car at a bus stop on the city's Keji Road, but the mother and pushchair were in his way.

A child died after being thrown out of her pram by a man who wanted to park his car at a Beijing bus stop and found a mother and the toddler in his way (file photo)

The mother refused to make way immediately because she was tending to her daughter.Han, a convicted thief in his 40s, is said to have got out of his car to hit the mother before taking the little girl out of her pram and hurling her 'forcefully' to the ground.He was arrested in a hotspring bathhouse and could face the death penalty if charged with murder, Chinese state media reports.

A stallholder known as Zhou told the Beijing Times: 'The baby made no noises after being dropped, not even a cry of pain.'Another man, said to be the passenger in the car, is said to have helped the driver attack the mother before the pair drove away.The passenger, who also has a criminal record, gave himself up to police on Thursday, Xinhua reported.
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[Wishing]

Beijing Man Slams Child on Ground, Killing Her, Over Parking

by Peter Barefoot on Friday, July 26, 2013

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From Nandu.com:
Man in Beijing Slammed 2-Year-Old Girl to Death on the Street over Parking Dispute

Summary: Two nights ago [July 23], at about 8:50pm, at the bus stop on the west side of Wudian Road in Daxing District, two men in a car had a dispute with a woman pushing a 2-year-old girl in a stroller. One of the men raised his hand hitting the woman, and afterwards, he took the baby girl out of the stroller and slammed her heavily onto the ground, then fled the scene in his car. After the incident happened, the baby girl was confirmed dead while en route to the hospital.

The scene where the incident happened has been cleaned up. Photographed by Beijing Times reporter Zhao Siheng.

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Baby girl slammed into the ground in her sleep

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The incident took place on the west side of Wudian Road in Daxing District Jiugong Town, at the Keji Road Bus Stop, where Bus 729 heads from Chengheyuan Community to Jiangzhuang Bridge North. Yesterday [July 24] morning, multiple commercial tenants at the scene of the incident confirmed that two nights ago [July 23], at past 8pm, there were people beating up a woman at the bus stop, and her child in the stroller was heavily smashed onto the ground. At the bus stop where the incident happened, there are already no more traces [of what happened].

On the night when the incident took place, a Mr. Zhou was running his food stand business about 10 meters away from the scene of the incident outside a noodle restaurant. He says on that night at about 8:50pm, he was tending to his business when suddenly he heard some “slapping” noises coming from the bus stop, where a man around the age of 30 wearing a dark colored upper garment was beating up a woman in white with medium-length hair, with a white car and a stroller parked to the side. “The man’s was beating [the woman] heavily, I could even hear it from my sidewalk food stand”. Mr. Zhou says after a few hits, he turned to the stroller and took the child out of it, “raised [the child] up, and then slammed [the child] into the ground”.

According to Mr. Zhou, the child in the stroller had been sleeping and didn’t struggle when the man picked her up. “She was even more still after being slammed into the ground, not even the normal sound of crying from pain”. Mr. Zhou said that after the man smashed the child to the ground, another man who looked to be about the same age as the man who beat up the woman came out of the white car from the driver’s seat, “and also hit the woman a few times”.

Parking dispute incited argument

Mr. Zhou says the whole thing lasted less than 3 minutes. After the incident, he cooperated with the police to retrieve surveillance footage. The surveillance footage showed that as the woman was pushing the stroller past the bus stop, “maybe there was something wrong with the child, so as she bent down to check, the white car drive by, and it seemed like the men inside the car wanted to park their car there, and were telling the woman to get out of the way”. According to Mr. Zhou, the woman refused, and after the two sides exchanged words, the man sitting next to the driver’s seat got out of the car and began beating her. Multiple eyewitnesses say, after the incident happened, the men quickly drove the white car south down Wudian Road. Before long, police arrived at the scene, cordoned off the bus stop, and began to investigate and collect evidence.

Baby girl confirmed dead

After the two men drove away, the woman who was beaten cried bitterly looking at her child. Then, she held the child in her arms running to the nearby Jiugong Hospital.
Yesterday [July 24] afternoon, medical workers at the emergency department of Jiugong Hospital confirmed that on the night the incident took place, a woman carrying a 2-year-old baby girl arrived for help, but because the condition was very grave, she then boarded an ambulance to be transferred to Tiantan Hospital.
Yesterday [July 24] afternoon, an insider claimed that the baby girl was confirmed dead while on her way to Tiantan Hospital from Jiugong Hospital.

Suspected arrested by police within 18 hours

After the incident, the city police made it a high priority, swiftly dispatching police forces to the scene, as well as establishing a special task force to spare no effort in investigating the case. From retrieving surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses at the scene, the special task force obtained preliminary information on the physical characteristics of the perpetrator, that he was over 40 years old, about 175cm in height, wearing glasses, and that the suspect vehicle was a white Sonata.

Based on the information at hand, the police had the entire city on the lookout, sparing no effort in searching for the suspect vehicle. Meanwhile, investigators began a door-to-door search based on the perpetrator’s physical characteristics. From these visits, some people reported that the perpetrator’s physical characteristics were very similar to a certain Han X who lived not far from the crime scene. The police immediately retrieved Han X’s information, and through the victim and witnesses’ identification, it was confirmed that Han X was the suspected perpetrator. On the early morning of July 24, the suspect vehicle was found by police in a community in Haidian District Xisanqi. On the afternoon of [July] 24, at about 3pm, 18 hours after the crime took place, the special task force arrested Han X (male, born in 1971, resident of Beijing City Fengtai District, sentenced to jail for larceny, released this year) who was hiding in a hot springs spa in Fangshan District. At present, the case is undergoing further investigation.

□ Expert’s Opinion
Suspect’s actions were inhuman

Last night [July 24], according to criminal litigation law expert Hong Daode, based on the current information provided by the witnesses, what the perpetrator did was absent the basic humanity.

He explains, it is not allowed to park one’s car at a bus stop, so the two men was wrong in the first place. Plus, the man who lifted the child up and slammed her into the ground can be accused of the crime crime of intentional homicide. “Lift a 2-year-old child up and smashing her on the ground, the consequence is something he could predict”. Professor Hong also said that even if the man wasn’t planning on killing the child, it is also considered “indirect intent” in the crime of intentional homicide. As for the crime of the man in the driver’s seat, it should be judged by the injuries of the woman. If the woman’s injuries exceed those of minor wounds, his crime will be determined by the injuries, but if they are minor or less, then this man can be charged with starting a fight or quarrel.

 

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Police arrest man in Beijing road rage toddler murder

Global Times – Xinhua | 2013-7-31 0:08:01

A suspect surnamed Han, who allegedly killed a baby girl in a road rage attack, was arrested on Monday, Beijing police said on Tuesday.

The Beijing Municipality Prosecutor's Office also approved the arrest of a man suspected of harboring Han, according to local police.

Han is accused of lifting the toddler from her stroller and hurling her onto the ground in Daxing district on July 23. The attack followed an altercation with the girl's mother over a parking space. Han and the driver fled the scene.

The girl was severely injured and died after hospital treatment.

The police found Han in a hot spring bathhouse and detained him on July 24. The driver of the car surrendered to police the following day. Han, 42, is a Beijing native from Fengtai district.