Summary Media reports said he used a hunting rifle and a metal pipe.
SHANGHAI (AFP) - A Chinese court on Wednesday condemned to death a chemicals factory worker who murdered six people in the commercial hub Shanghai over a dispute with his colleagues, local media reported.
The Shanghai Number Two Intermediate People s Court announced the sentence for Fan Jieming, 62, who killed four co-workers, a taxi driver and a guard at a military barracks in June 2013, the Shanghai Daily newspaper said on its website.
The crimes, committed over a six-hour period, arose from a dispute with his colleagues over how to divide up materials and other assets from the shuttered chemical plant where they worked, it said.
Media reports said he used a hunting rifle and a metal pipe. Shootings are rare in China, where firearms possession is illegal for individuals.
The newspaper report did not say if Fan would appeal. Under Chinese law, the country s Supreme Court must review death sentences before they can be carried out.
Social tensions have mounted in China in recent years against the backdrop of a widening income gap and abuses of public power, with disputes over even trifling issues sometimes triggering serious incidents.
In April a man who injured more than 30 people by setting fire to a bus in the city of Hangzhou was executed.
