Chinese Celebrity Executed for Murdering Underage Girlfriend After Breakup, News Revealed Late

Sentenced to Death for Murdering Girlfriend
Had Also Won Best New Actor at Jinshangjiang Event

Chinese celebrity Zhang Yiyang, who was executed on charges of murdering his underage girlfriend. Baidu

Chinese authorities have reportedly executed a male Chinese celebrity who murdered his underage girlfriend after she informed him of their breakup.

According to Yonhap News on July 24 (local time), citing local media such as Jimu News and Hongxing News, the Xianyang Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province sentenced former celebrity Zhang Yiyang to death for murdering his 16-year-old girlfriend out of dissatisfaction with her breakup notice in 2022, and he was executed by firing squad in December last year.

According to the court, Zhang, who was born in 1990, had threatened suicide several times before the incident after his girlfriend, whom he had been dating since 2021, informed him of the breakup. In February 2022, he called her out under the pretense of celebrating her birthday, got into another argument, and then killed her with a weapon he had prepared in advance.

The court sentenced him to death, stating that the crime was brutal and had a negative impact on society, and the sentence was carried out. Zhang had previously appeared on variety shows, released solo albums, and won the Best New Actor award at the 2019 Jinshangjiang event in the Chinese film industry. According to Chinese media, Zhang is the first celebrity in China to be executed by law.

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