Chinese student decapitated at Virginia Tech

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Chinese student decapitated at Virginia Tech

<cite class="auth">AFP - Friday, January 23</cite>WASHINGTON (AFP) - - A female Chinese graduate student was decapitated by a fellow student in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech, the scene of the worst school shooting in US history in 2007, police said.
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At approximately 7:00 pm Wednesday (0000 GMT Thursday), Yang Xin, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, was killed at an Au Bon Pain cafe on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, university officials said.

They added that emergency contact records suggest that Yang and the student who murdered her, Zhu Haiyang from Ningbo, China, knew each other. According to officials, witnesses said Zhu, 25, attacked Yang with a knife.

"There were seven witnesses in the cafe. There had been no argument, no shouting" when the young woman was attacked, said Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski, confirming that Yang had been decapitated.
The Collegiate Times, the university's newspaper, said police received a 911 emergency call minutes after the assault and the officer who arrived at the scene found Yang's head had been cut off. The murder weapon, a large kitchen knife, was found at the scene.

In a copy of a police affidavit published by the Collegiate Times, the officer said that when she arrived at the scene she found Zhu holding Yang's head in his hand."This is horrible and tragic. Especially when we know that Virginia Tech has got its share of hardship and horror," Owczarski said.
In April 2007, Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student born in South Korea, shot 32 fellow classmates and teachers to death before killing himself.

"Once again we are challenged as a community to offer support to one another as we process this recent event. Once again we will rise to the occasion," Virginia Tech president Charles Steger said in a statement, saying the university community was "shocked" by the murder.
In a condolence statement, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine said that the latest attack "has no doubt revived terrible memories for countless members of the Hokie family."

Zhu was charged with first-degree murder and was being held at a county jail. He had not had a record with university or local police, the school indicated.Yang had arrived at Virginia Tech in early January to begin studies in accounting. Zhu was a PhD graduate student in agriculture and applied economics.

 

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Police: VaTech grad student knew suspected killer

By SUE LINDSEY,Associated Press Writer <cite class="auth">AP - Friday, January 23

</cite>BLACKSBURG, Va. - Alone and in a new country, graduate student Xin Yang reached out to other Chinese students at Virginia Tech when she arrived two weeks ago, trying to establish her life on campus.
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She went to social events with international students, got in touch with the campus center that works to help them adjust and appeared to be making friends as she settled into her accounting program, those who had met her said. But one of the friendships may have led to her death: Police say she was decapitated with a kitchen knife while having coffee with a Chinese doctoral student in a campus cafe Wednesday night. The killing stunned a campus that still has vivid memories of the mass slayings in April 2007, when a student gunman shot 32 people and then took his own life. The stabbing was the first slaying on campus since then. "An act of violence like this brings back memories of April 16," university President Charles Steger said. "I have no doubt that many of us feel especially distraught."

It appeared Yang, who was from Beijing, had met her accused attacker, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China, only recently, said Kim Beisecker, the director of Cranwell International Center, which works with international students. Zhu, a doctoral student in agricultural and applied economics, had been assisting her in adjusting to life at Tech, something the 500 Chinese students often do for new members in their community, she said. They both attended functions for international students, she said. "She was a very sweet young woman," she said. "He was known as a polite young man."

Though they apparently didn't know each other well, school records listed Zhu as one of her emergency contacts. Beisecker said that may have been because Yang knew few people on campus."As best we know, she had made a fair number of friends, but only in the last week," Beisecker said. What led to the attack is also a mystery: About seven other people who were in the coffee shop told police that the two hadn't been arguing before the attack. Beisecker said there hadn't been previous signs of trouble between them.

However, a Chinese-language blog was written earlier this month under the name Haiyang Zhu, and displaying the same photo of Zhu by authorities in Virginia. The author expressed frustration over stock losses and other problems in the blog, dated Jan. 7. "Big stock losses. Recently I've been so frustrated I think only of killing someone or committing suicide," the posting reads.Police received two 911 calls shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday, and were on the scene in a little more than a minute to take Zhu into custody, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.

Zhu was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. His attorney, Stephanie Cox, did not return a call seeking comment Thursday. Classes were held as usual Thursday and the sprawling 2,600-acre campus appeared normal, with students skateboarding, talking on cell phones and chatting with friends. Tasha Lockhart, a sophomore from Ocean City, Md., went to her biology class in the Graduate Life Center's auditorium Thursday afternoon. Her instructor told students to be aware of exits that were away from the main entrance in case of trouble, she said. After the arrest, a campus alert system put in place after the mass shootings by Seung-Hui Cho in 2007 sent out messages to 30,000 subscribers by e-mail, text messages and telephone voice mails Wednesday night, University spokesman Larry Hinckler said.

Because a suspect was in custody, the messages were sent out as notifications rather than as emergency alerts, he said. He said 60,000 messages were sent in about a half hour. The school offered counseling to students, faculty and staff, and officials contacted students who were injured in the mass shootings as well as the families of victims. "It was a very retraumatizing kind of experience," said Debbie Day, director of the Office of Recovery and Support.

 

[shOUTloud]

I tell you. This one-child policy is turning an entire generation of PRCs into sociopaths who cannot relate to one another.

From young, those with siblings have to learn to share everything, including the parents' love and attention. For those who are single child, the learning process is very much stunted, ending in adults who cannot restrain his/her emotions and feelings to deal with situations.

This is just the beginning. Next time, Singaporeans also.

 

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I tell you. This one-child policy is turning an entire generation of PRCs into sociopaths who cannot relate to one another.

From young, those with siblings have to learn to share everything, including the parents' love and attention. For those who are single child, the learning process is very much stunted, ending in adults who cannot restrain his/her emotions and feelings to deal with situations.

This is just the beginning. Next time, Singaporeans also.

rubbish arguments!

that korean guy got sister how come he massacred everbody at VTech?

more likely Communist instilled nationalistic education has a part to blame.

to put it simply. communism screws up the entire country.

and they still believed it is a perfect system by covering up its flaws....

another bunch of self deluding bastards, like the PAP Dogs....

 

[loeggusder]

To do this. one must have lost all hope in life. Tragic, so young. jilted do you think- or unrequited love?
she looks quite pretty.

 

[char_jig_kar]

"hi. its me. why don't u come over to my apartment, i will make u a nice dinner tonight."

"... i wanna go cafe tonight."

"......" (fuming inside, cannot ganna reject) "which cafe?"

"xyz cafe..."

"okay, i will be there in ten minutes." (i will show u a good time bitch, with you staring at your own body, out of body experience u piece of shit....)