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at 3:30 a.m. on february 22 this year, the grandpa zhang sneaked into the home of his 19-year-old granddaughter bai and asked for money. after being refused, a fight broke out. zhang strangled her to death and applied electric shocks to the victim's chest and other parts. it was determined that bai died of suffocation by strangulation. zhang was arrested on suspicion of intentional homicide. on september 12, the case will be heard at the first instance of the yuncheng intermediate people's court in shanxi province.

bai's younger sister xiaojia (pseudonym) told china news weekly that zhang was actually the sisters' step-grandfather. after their grandmother died of illness last year, zhang borrowed money from them twice, one of which was several thousand yuan. he came to borrow money again a few days before the incident. after the incident, xiaojia saw from her sister's mobile phone chat records that zhang asked her sister to borrow 20,000 yuan on the grounds of building a breeding farm, but was rejected.

xiaojia said that their father died of illness in his early years, and their mother also died in a car accident a few years ago. in order to take care of the two sisters who were not yet adults at the time, their grandmother moved into the sisters' home with her step-grandfather. after their grandmother passed away, their step-grandfather also moved out of the house, "but he did not return the key to us, and we were reluctant to change the locks." according to case materials, on the night of the incident, zhang used the door key that he had kept before to open the door.

xiaojia recalled that the only time the two sisters had a conflict with zhang was last year when zhang asked them to borrow money for their grandmother's surgery. since the money was compensation for her mother's car accident, it had been entrusted to a lawyer for safekeeping. on the night when she returned to the village to discuss withdrawing the money, her grandmother unfortunately passed away. "(step)grandfather has always believed that my grandmother's death was caused by us not lending him the money."

materials related to the case show that zhang harbored resentment towards the two sisters due to family conflicts. after killing bai, he hid the tools used in the crime in xiaojia's bedroom, intending to kill her after xiaojia came back. after waiting for a while, zhang thought that xiaojia would not come back, so he fled the scene.

xiaojia said that she was working in another place at the time and escaped the murder. when the murder happened, her sister, who was a sophomore in college, was at home alone during the winter break. her sister’s 20th birthday was just a few days away. she wanted to use her first month’s salary to buy her sister a new phone, but she didn’t expect the tragedy to happen. “i hope the court sentences the murderer to death.”