About 8 AM on May 19, 2002, Falun Dafa practitioners successfully released two balloons on Mingzhu Square that had huge truth-clarifying banners attached to them.

Some plainclothes police quickly surrounded the square. Around 9 AM, a high school student tried to commit suicide by taking poison. The student was a girl named Sun Yiming from the No. 1 High School of Dehui City. After breaking up with her boyfriend, Sun committed suicide on the square. Before the poison took her life, the plainclothes police officers stopped her and asked her many questions. By the time they confirmed her identity, it was too late to save her. The girl died in a hospital.

It is obvious that being delayed by the police prevented the girl's rescue, yet they made up the following to frame Falun Gong: "The girl was a Falun Gong practitioner, and she wanted to go to heaven with the balloons."