Wang Zongfang was a former soldier and stole a gun from a prison in 1976.

[1] They committed their first murder on 12 February 1983, while robbing the People's Liberation Army Hospital in Shenyang and shot dead five soldiers during the Chinese New Year.

[2] Er Wang killed and injured police officers and soldiers, totaling nine dead and nine injured, using guns and grenades, in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangsu.

[citation needed] The Wang brothers were killed by gunshots by the Armed Forces' Encirclement Troop in Guangchang, Jiangxi.

[4] Their deaths occurred during a nationwide strike-hard campaign on crime.