Li Shikang | |
Birthname: | Li Shikang |
Birth Date: | 1955 |
Birth Place: | Sichuan, China |
Victims: | 6 killed, 17 wounded |
Country: | China |
States: | Sichuan, Guangzhou, Zhuhai |
Beginyear: | February |
Endyear: | October 1999 |
Apprehended: | December 1999 |
Li Shikang (born 1955) is a Chinese serial killer who killed six people and wounded 17 others with letter bombs sent to medical staff, whom he blamed for not curing his sexually transmitted disease.[1]
Li Shikang, frustrated by the fact that doctors had dismissed his fears for his children while failing to cure him, sent his first bomb on February 18, 1999, disguised as a fruit box, to the house of Dr. Xu, teacher of the University of Medicine of Sichuan Province.[2]
On October 6, 1999, he sent a bomb to Dr. Chen; it exploded and killed Chen and two others at a clinic in Guangzhou. Two others were wounded.[2]
In the third explosion on October 24, 1999, he sent a bomb to Dr. Wu, who told Shikang that the disease could not be transmitted by everyday contact with his children.[1] [2] Two butlers were killed in the explosion, while Wu and 13 other people were wounded.[1] [2]
Li Shikang was arrested in December after a joint operation by police in Zhuhai and Guangzhou through the detonators he used.[1]