What happened to the bizarre murder at Yonglong Hotel in Shishou City, Hubei Province?

At about 7:30 pm on June 17, 2009, a murder occurred at the Yonglong Hotel in Shishou City, Hubei Province. The hotel’s 23-year-old male chef Tu Yuangao (Changhe Village, Gaojimiao Town, Shishou City) Tu Yuangao, who was mistakenly called a female in previous reports and hereby apologizes) fell from the third floor and died on the spot. After witnesses reported the case, the police went to the scene and said it was suicide. However, the family members believed that the cause of Tu Yuangao's death was suspicious because Tu Yuangao's ears and nose were There were dried blood clots inside, but there was no trace of blood where the body fell. Moreover, a similar murder occurred in this hotel two years ago. A female waiter died in the same way. The hotel paid 30,000 yuan and then settled the matter. There are also people According to reports, a similar incident occurred in the hotel in 1999, when a woman was suspected of being raped and then thrown downstairs. It is said that a leader from Shishou has a stake in the hotel. The restaurant's business has been very poor and it mainly relies on drug trafficking to maintain its operations. There are drug addicts in Shishou City who are willing to come forward and testify that the hotel specializes in drug trafficking.

After the incident, the hotel owner avoided Tu Yuangao’s family members, and the family members of the deceased could not contact the hotel owner. On June 18, the family members of the deceased received a reply that they would receive 35,000 yuan if they admitted suicide. Yuan compensation, if he does not admit suicide, the body will be forcibly sent to the funeral home for cremation at eight o'clock that night. After the incident, the police repeatedly urged Tu Yuangao's family to drag the body away for cremation, and some people prevented the funeral home from renting freezers to the family of the deceased. At present, the local temperature is above 30 degrees most of the time, and the body of the deceased was placed in the hotel. Tu Yuangao's family He insisted on refusing to cremate the body until the doubts were solved. His father placed a liquefied gas tank on the first floor of the hotel to kill the body snatchers, and sympathizers began to gather at the door of the hotel.

At around 1 a.m. on June 19, 2009, police cars and funeral home vehicles arrived at the hotel and wanted to take away the body, but 2,000 people on site blocked the hotel entrance to stop them. At 8 o'clock in the morning on June 19, it had been more than 36 hours since Tu Yuangao's death. The aggrieved people still did not disperse. Hundreds of Shishou citizens spontaneously kept vigil for the deceased all night. After 8 o'clock, sympathizers gathered at the door of the hotel. Hang large banners and signed letters from the people. Soon, the police came to the scene again to forcibly remove the body, and clashed with the people at the scene. More than a dozen sympathizers and onlookers were injured. However, after being injured, these people not only were not sent to the hospital, but were directly killed by the police. Put in a detention center. This led to the escalation of the emotional confrontation between the people and the police. More and more people rushed to the scene. With their numerical advantage, the people began to gain the upper hand in the conflict. They fought back the police time and time again, and Tu Yuangao's body was never snatched. Walk. At around 1:30 p.m., thousands of people at the scene used bricks and beer bottles to prevent the police from snatching the body. The funeral car was smashed. Dozens of uniformed police officers and plainclothes were chased by people from the scene of the crime (Yonglong Hotel) for about 500 meters and fled to the station. Hiding, the main traffic intersection near the station was blocked by crowds, and buses were forced to change routes, but it is said that the vast majority of passengers had no complaints.

At 3 pm on June 19, the largest body snatching operation organized by the local police failed again. About 40,000 citizens gathered on the streets, reaching the highest number of people. The Shishou City Government was forced to ask the armed police for help. , on the evening of June 20, about a battalion of armed police transferred from Jingzhou and other places arrived. The local people used stones and bottles to fight against the armed police. Many public security and armed police vehicles were smashed by the people. Due to the large gathering of people, the armed police were forced to retreat.

On the night of June 19, due to rumors that the government would snatch corpses again at 5 a.m. on June 20, tens of thousands of Shishou citizens took to the streets overnight, not only surrounding the entrance of the Yonglong Hotel, but also blocking it. the main intersection of the city.

At around 2 a.m. on June 20, about 500 police and armed police lined up to snatch the body from the hotel. As soon as they reached the nearby epidemic prevention station, they were attacked with bricks and stones by thousands of citizens. The police and armed police withdrew again, and the crowd chased them for about a kilometer, and one policeman was overturned. The withdrawal of the armed police did not make the public take it lightly, and many people continued to guard the entrance of the hotel voluntarily. In the early morning clashes on the 19th and 20th, dozens of citizens were injured or arrested, and many police and armed police were also injured.

In order to control the spread of information about the incident, on the night of June 20, Internet cafes in Shishou City were disconnected from the Internet, power was cut off in the Yonglong Hotel area, and street lights were also extinguished. It is understood that after the incident, the family members of the deceased and local people called news organizations in Beijing and Wuhan, but reporters who rushed to Shishou were persuaded to go back by local officials. It is said that the Shishou City Municipal Committee held an emergency meeting on the 19th and personnel from various government agencies and institutions were not allowed to attend the scene.

As of 6 a.m. on June 20, Tu Yuangao’s body was still in the hotel and had not been taken away. Thousands of people were still blocking the entrance of the hotel. As the sky turned brighter, some citizens Rushed to the scene one after another. At around 7 o'clock, the personnel at the scene sent back the news via mobile phone text message that a large number of armed police rushed to the scene again in buses, and at least eight anti-riot armored vehicles and six firefighting high-pressure water cannon trucks also went together. Another conflict was unavoidable, and Shi People in the capital appealed for attention and support from the outside world.