Asian student murders woman at Virginia Tech
 

BLACKSBURG, Va. – A graduate student from China has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a female student on Virginia Tech's campus, the first killing there since a deadly mass shooting in 2007.

An electronic alert system revamped after the massacre warned students to stay in place while police investigated the incident around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday — about half an hour after the suspect was taken into custody. They were cleared to resume normal activity about an hour later.

The woman, who was also a graduate student but was not identified, was stabbed to death at a cafe in the Graduate Life Center. Police believe she knew the man accused of attacking her, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu, the school said in a news release. He was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bond.

It was unclear early Thursday morning where he was being held or whether he had an attorney.

Campus police were called to the scene around 7:06 p.m., and Zhu was taken into custody minutes later, the school said. Responding officers found him and a knife they believe was used at the scene.

Students who live in the building were allowed to come and go, but others were asked to stay away from the area. The hall would re-open later Thursday morning, the school said.

Virginia Tech added text messages and other ways of warning students of possible danger to its system of e-mail alerts after Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before turning the gun on himself in April 2007.

The revamped alert system was first used last November when an exploded cartridge from a nail gun produced sounds similar to gunfire near a dormitory. During that scare, police searched a residence hall before determining the sounds came from the tool.

Holy shit I thought the title read VAN TECH when I first saw it.

Still sucks either way.

same lol ^

that can't be good....

yeah i thought it was van tech too


i dont think virginia tech will be accepting asian students anymore

was the last 1 chinesee or vietnamese i cant rmb?
but damn... i wonder wat drives those azn dudes @ va. tech crazy?

great... this gets out and the jokes on asians and massacres will never end
RIP to the woman.

damn RIP.

can you imagine having to spend the night at a murder scene because you live there?
I wouldn't be able to sleep.

Neither. He was KOREANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

last one was korean

Haha, I also thought it was Van Tech =3

what up with these asians raging this hard? they need to play more mmorpgs.

Ya, I think Virgina suffers from a lack of arcades

^ ddr tha shit

wow, too much stress man.

I just read it on CNN.. People are just fucked up these days.. RIP

Guys.. I just read OP post. He forgot to mentioned that this person was decapitated..

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/22/...ath/index.html

CNN) -- A female graduate student at Virginia Tech was killed Wednesday night when a man she knew attacked her with a knife and decapitated her, a school spokesman said.


Virginia Tech police Chief Wendell Flinchum talks about the first slaying on campus since the 2007 shootings.

Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski said Thursday that Xin Yang's killing was the first on the campus since April 16, 2007, when a shooter killed 32 people before turning a gun on himself.

Yang, 22, from Beijing, China, was killed at the Au Bon Pain restaurant in the Graduate Life Center at around 7 p.m., school spokesman Larry Hincker said in a written statement.

Campus police took Haiyang Zhu, 25, into custody at the scene. The Ningbo, China, native has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail at a local jail, Hincker said.

Zhu did not say anything to the arresting officers, said campus police Chief Wendell Flinchum.

"There was blood on him," Flinchum said. The young woman and the suspect "were not seen arguing, or anything of that nature," he added, citing witness statements.

Authorities said the two students knew each other. "Based on emergency contact records maintained by the university, it is known that Zhu and Yang knew each other," Hincker said. No other details were provided.

The young woman arrived at the university two weeks ago to begin studies in accounting, he said in the statement.

Zhu is a graduate student pursuing a doctorate in agricultural and applied economics. He began studies at Virginia Tech in fall 2008, Hincker said.

"Our hearts go out to the victim and her family," President Charles W. Steger said in a letter to the campus community.

"An act of violence like this one brings back memories of the April 16 tragedy and I have no doubt that many of us feel especially distraught."

Authorities say on April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and professors before killing himself.

Damn, all these kind of murders start causing Asian stereotypes...

oh.. I thoguht this was local too. VanTech. I guess not.

i thought van tech as well

me too. megan fox is doing a movie there right now at van tech

+1 for Van Tech

RIP to the woman, i hope they throw the book at the guy

WTF!!!! sick ppl

ok.....

the greyhound guy was from mainland Chinia

this guy's from mainland China

sigh... it's an unfortunate event that doesn't help much with with the image of Asian immigrants. Instead of "I'm not a a bad driver like everyone else keeps saying!" we'll start saying "Don't worry, I'm not going to cut off your head for no reason, really!"

what a fucked up world with fucked up people.

WASHINGTON - 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 Thursday.


At approximately 7:00 pm Wednesday, Xin Yang, 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, Haiyang Zhu 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.

wha thappen if happened in vantech?