Anne Anne Kindergarten stabbing

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Anne Anne Kindergarten stabbing
Location Un Chau Street Estate, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon
Date3 June 1982
1:30 p.m.
Attack type
Mass stabbing, mass murder
WeaponsTwo knives
Two chisels
Deaths6
Injured38 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorLee Chi-hang
Motive Schizophrenia

The Anne Anne Kindergarten stabbing was a mass stabbing which occurred in Kowloon, Hong Kong on 3 June 1982. After killing his mother and sister in their flat in Un Chau Street Estate, and also wounding two other women, 28-year-old Lee Chi-hang (李志衡; lei5 zi3 hang4) entered Anne Anne Kindergarten and stabbed 34 children, killing four of them, and also injured several other people, before he was arrested by police. Lee was found to be insane and was placed in a mental institution. [1]

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Incident

At around 1:30 pm, Lee stabbed his mother and sister in their flat, Room 5274, Block 8, Un Chau Street Estate. They later died in hospital. Armed with two knives with eight-inch blades and two chisels, Lee ran downstairs, stabbing two sisters in the stairwell on the way, and fled to the Anne Anne Kindergarten (安安幼稚園), located on the ground floor of Block 9, Un Chau Estate. He entered the kindergarten, where 60 children between three and four years of age were having a singing lesson, and immediately began slashing and stabbing the children, leaving 34 of them wounded, six of them with their arms nearly severed, [2] and four with fatal injuries.

One of the teachers shouted "follow me" to the students, causing many to run outside. [3] She ran to the estate's neighbourhood policing unit on the ground floor of Block 10 for help. Two police officers arrived at the scene. Lee fled to the playground, where he stabbed constable Chan Kin Ming in the chest. [4] Ignoring the injured policeman's orders to drop his weapons, Lee continued stabbing at passers-by, wounding two men and a woman and wounding a 14-year-old boy before Chan stopped him with a shot to the left arm and stomach. [5] [6] [7] [8]

A total of 38 injured children were taken to Caritas Medical Centre while the injured police constable was taken to Princess Margaret Hospital. [4] [9] Chief Secretary Philip Haddon-Cave and other government officials, who had coincidentally been visiting the nearby Cheung Sha Wan fish market, arrived soon after to inspect the scene and offer condolences. [4]

Victims

Killed

Wounded

Perpetrator

Lee, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, was the son of Lee Chiu-wing (李士榮) and Leung Lai-kuen. According to his father, he was a silent boy who did poorly in school, showed strange behaviour, and spoke incoherently. In 1976, he was admitted to Castle Peak Hospital, a mental institution, for six months, after fighting with a neighbour. [2] He subsequently received treatment at the Yaumatei Psychiatric Centre. [4] Lee frequently had depression and threatened to kill his parents during an argument in January 1979. In the time prior to the stabbing, he was unemployed and was said to have appeared emotionally unstable. [5]

Aftermath

After the stabbing, security measures at nursery schools were upgraded, and it was made compulsory for discharged patients of mental institutions to regularly attend psychiatric out-patient clinics.

Lee was charged with six counts of murder, [5] and in April 1983 he was sentenced to be detained in a mental hospital for an unspecified period. [10] As of January 1998 he was still being held at the Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre in Tuen Mun. [2]

The 1986 film The Lunatics by Derek Yee is based on the incident.

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Care versus caution Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine , The Standard (18 January 1998)
  3. "Teacher yelled 'follow me'". South China Morning Post. 8 June 1982. p. 14.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Cheung, Donald; Sinclair, Kevin (4 June 1982). "Stabbing horror at kindergarten". South China Morning Post. p. 1.
  5. 1 2 3 Running Amok, Asiaweek (18 June 1982)
  6. Man kills three, wounds 39 in knife-slashing rampage, Eugene Register-Guard (3 June 1982)
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  8. Amok kills 4, hurts 42, New Straits Times (5 June 1982)
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