Chinese actor and singer Zhang Yiyang was reportedly executed last year for murdering a teenager in 2022.

He is the first known entertainer in mainland China to be executed for such a crime, Channel News Asia reported.

According to records from the Intermediate People’s Court of Xianyang City in Shaanxi province, Zhang, then 30, lured the 16-year-old girl into a remote forest near Xingping City under the pretence of a birthday celebration on 26 February 2022.

They had a dispute and Zhang attacked her with a folding knife, killing her.

Zhang allegedly attempted to conceal his crime by disposing of his clothes and the victim’s phone in a reservoir and then checked into a hotel intending to take his own life. Hotel staff intervened and alerted authorities, who arrested him soon afterwards.