On the morning of May 7, 1969, 17-year-old tenth-grader Chou Chen-lung (who later changed his name to Yang Chen-lung) brought a concealed short-handled axe into Provincial Keelung High School after being reprimanded for truancy. While his homeroom teacher Chiang Hsin-tung was grading papers at his desk, Chou struck him from behind with two violent axe blows to the neck, severing the carotid artery and killing Chiang instantly in full view of classmates. Chou was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murder and paroled after serving over seven years. He later changed his name to conceal this gruesome criminal record, an incident that remains one of the darkest school homicide tragedies in Taiwan's history.
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Horrific Axe Murder at Provincial Keelung High School: Chou Chen-lung Hacks Homeroom Teacher Chiang Hsin-tung to Death
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