Chinese exchange student at Virginia Tech beheads girl

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Victim of Virginia Tech slaying was decapitated
By SUE LINDSEY – 1 hour ago

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.

Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.

Her accused attacker, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China, knew the victim but no motive for the slaying has been determined, Flinchum said. School records showed that Haiyang was listed as one of Xin’s emergency contacts.

:whistle:
I don’t know what to say. Because I don’t know what it must be like to be an Asian student at Virginia Tech. But it must be very, very bad.
Something is very wrong with Virginia Tech. Because it seems that they have a disproportionte amount of Asian students committing senseless slayings.
In fact, something is wrong with decapitations in North America. This is two decapitations in North America within a year, and I do hope it is not part of a trend that will result in more decapitations.
Other than that, I am very upset and I just want to post about it. I know that the Koreans were upset about the first slaying at Virginia Tech. So I thought I should give all of you a warning that your Chinese students may get upset.
Virginia Tech. I am never going there. Unless stuff like this causes the tuition to be very cheap.

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One has to be careful who one befriends. I hope he gets death and first 20 years behind bars. Poor girl, only 22 .

And he was a coward to not resist arrest and just let the police shoot him dead.

Are mainland chinese generally this violent? Seems Koreans can be pretty violent and hot headed too as to what happened at virginia tech not long ago.

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At least he didn’t eat her.

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How do you know he didn’t?

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I tried to discourage my friend from naming her daughter “Virginia”.

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Boy if that happened in Mainland China that’d be a short ride to the execution field and pink mist cocktail instead of 3 hots and a cot and a chance to improve your English and find Jesus in a nice American jail. :bow:

Wonder if the tables were turned and two American students were involved in this at West Po Dunk Chinaversity how their media would spin it? I can imagine the “Human Flesh Engines” baring their collective teeth.

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guys , lets not forget a young 22 year old girl lost her life and died a very ghastly death.
R.I.P

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[quote=“tommy525”]guys , lets not forget a young 22 year old girl lost her life and died a very ghastly death.
R.I.P[/quote]

Amen brother :bravo:

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whats even more mind boggling is how she became the in-case-of-emergency-person of the dead girl??

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FYI I know of at least one inter-foreign-student killing that happened in Shenyang around end 1979 beginning 1980. There was a fight between Africans and Arabs, and if I remember rightly one African from, possibly, Gabon, got knifed by a Yemeni. The Yemeni was deported.

There were a lot of other instances of fights, suicides, people cracking up and going to mental hospital or getting sent home…

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Extremely tragic way to die and so senseless. Her parents must be horrified. And the parents of her killer cant be happy either. His life is effectively ruined too. IF he ever goes back to China he will likely be executed. And to think its not easy to be able to go to an University in the USA if you are from China, unless your family is of above average income (actually true of anyone attending from abroad) . So two young people with promising lives turned into tragedy.

No argument apparently preceded the attack. He just upped and cut her head off it seems.

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I was at the University of Iowa when a mainland Chinese grad student went on a shooting rampage, killing several people and then turning the gun on himself. He was upset because his dissertation didn’t win a prestigious award.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Lu

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:ohreally:

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Incredibly sad.

Odd that it happened at Virginia Tech, though I can’t think of any real reason why this guy would be at all related to the Korean guy a couple years back. Other than being male, college age, of Asian decent and at that university, I don’t see anything they had in common. I really hope if there’s any backlash towards Asians it doesn’t result in more violence.

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She apparently only recently met him . He is said to be a TA and rather social and was helping her to adjust to college life. They were apparently just chillin in the cafe when suddenly he put his arms around her and started to slice off her head. Unimaginable really.

He had some run ins with his landlord and was said to exhibit some odd behavior.

The guy was nuts. The police officer found him with her head in his hand when she arrived first on the scene. The girl was a recent young arrival and apparently rather meek and mild mannered. Befriended the wrong guy.

I hope he never gets out of jail or a mental hospital. It wouldnt be safe to have him around anywhere. Too bad he is not sent back to China. They will deal with him swiftly.

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You advocating capital punishment, now? “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and I’ve got nothing left to lose. and I’m not afraid to die”.

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Rather does sound like a capital murder charge. Did he have a weapon on him, yes. That raises it 2nd, or 1st, degree Murder. Now they’ll have to find a way to prove that his actions was premeditated to kill her, and not to kill someone else. If they can do that, it will be 1st degree murder. Given the horror of the crime, what do you think is an appropriate sentence jimipresley?

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Community service, eg girl scout cookie selling. Come on. We have religion and capital punishment and we call ourselves civilized?

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[quote=“redandy”]Incredibly sad.

Odd that it happened at Virginia Tech, though I can’t think of any real reason why this guy would be at all related to the Korean guy a couple years back. Other than being male, college age, of Asian decent and at that university, I don’t see anything they had in common. I really hope if there’s any backlash towards Asians it doesn’t result in more violence.[/quote]

I don’t see anything in common either. It’s another sad story, and I hope no one in America associates anything that these two sick individuals did with any other person.

Some people are crazy, some people are violent, some people get the weapons they want too easily, some people don’t get the help they need when they need it, and some people are beyond help and should be kept away from others.

One thing that I DIDN’T hear much about with the Korean guy (Cho) back in 2007, was that he had been taken to a (Catholic?) church for demonic possession in the months prior to his shooting spree.

Now, some of you may laugh, and say that people these days don’t lend any creedence to exorcism; but I gather that there is a significant percentage of Asians that view mental disorders as family curses that might best be sorted out at the temple or church.

Below is a link of a Catholic priest who wrote about the demonic possession (and obviously believes in it). I don’t know how much help these two sick individuals got, but I would hope that the Asian community would be offered, and would seek, the best scientific mental help available in 2009.

Anyway, among other things, the priest said:

"Well, first let me say that, as a Catholic priest, I have seen and worked with my share of possessed and obsessed individuals. It’s entirely possible for someone to be at once responsible for his own acts and totally under the influence of the devil in committing them. In this case, Cho pulled the trigger, but the devil was the author of the deed. Does not Jesus call him “a murderer from the beginning”? The devil is the prime mover of all evil in the world, but human beings freely cooperate with him in their evil decisions. No one gets off the hook of responsibility . . . "

link for those interested in more . . .
hli.org/sl_2007-05-04.html

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YES capital punishment is appropriate in such a murder as decapitating a person without due cause.