On February 19, 2015 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), at a Spring Festival gathering in Beigaoying Village, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, Jia Jinglong shot and killed He Jianhua, the village Party branch secretary and village committee director, with a modified nail gun, over the forced demolition of his marital home in 2013.
On February 19, 2015, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Jinglong killed He Jianhua and then drove to turn himself in. On the way, his car was rammed to a stop by vehicles driven by He Jianhua's son and nephew, and he was restrained, suffering multiple injuries, including a comminuted fracture of the lower leg.
On the afternoon of May 7, 2013, at 5 pm, 18 days before the wedding date, the demolition team of the Beigaoying Village Committee forcibly demolished Jia Jinglong's wedding home with an excavator. His father was restrained, relatives were beaten, Jia Jinglong was injured in the head, and the engagement was later broken off.
After Jia Jinglong's marital home was forcibly demolished in May 2013, he repeatedly wrote letters of complaint to the Chang'an District Procuratorate and the district letters and visits bureau, and repeatedly sought talks with village head He Jianhua over compensation, all to no avail.