Man Who Rammed Car Into Chinese Consulate Had Fake Guns and Book on Political Assassinations

The man who drove a car into the Chinese Consulate building in San Francisco on Monday owned a collection of assault weapons and replica firearms, as well as a book about political assassinations.

Reporters from the San Francisco Standard interviewed the roommate of 31-year-old Zhanyuan Yang, who was shot and killed by police after driving into the consulate building and shouting: “Where is the CCP [the Chinese Communist Party]?”

The journalists were invited into Yang's apartment by his roommate, who did not want to be identified, and spotted assault weapons, a knife and at least five guns identified as replicas, they reported.

"The room had Chinese-language books on subjects such as chemistry, religion, filmmaking and science fiction, as well as English-language books such as the Bible and a work by Mao Zedong," noted the Standard.

He also had a map of East and Southeast Asia with Communist Party slogans on a whiteboard, and the book “Political Murder - From Tyrannicide to Terrorism.”

Yang came from Shandong Province in China and graduated from Xingtan College of Qufu Normal University in 2014 with a major in environmental sciences, according to the Standard.

His roommate, who had lived with him for three years, could not explain why he attacked the consulate.

After the crash, the Consulate-General for the People's Republic of China said that the incident had severely damaged the embassy's building.

"Our embassy severely condemns this violent attack," the consulate said.

While Yang was shot after crashing into the building, he died at a local hospital, the San Francisco Police Department confirmed Monday.