this fucker sawed off his girlfriends head in a restaurant with a freakin steak knife, ON CAMPUS.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/22/va-tech-graduate-student-slain/

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 12:42 PM. Reason : AS]

1/22/2009 12:41:37 PM

Holy shit

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"Va. Tech graduate student slain Posted: 12:20 PM ET (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 spokesman Mark Owczarski told CNN 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. Additional details of the killing were not immediately available. Hincker said, “Witnesses indicated no signs of argument and that Zhu attacked her with a knife.”"

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 12:43 PM. Reason : fail]

1/22/2009 12:42:29 PM

oh my god. that is brutal

1/22/2009 12:43:06 PM

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"Va. Tech graduate student slain Posted: 12:20 PM ET (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 spokesman Mark Owczarski told CNN 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. Additional details of the killing were not immediately available. Hincker said, “Witnesses indicated no signs of argument and that Zhu attacked her with a knife.” "

damn beat me to it. was no one there like hey maybe we should stop this punk beofre he cuts complely through her head. I mean it was a fucking steak knife you can't tell me that wouldn't take a hot minute to cut through someones neck

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 12:44 PM. Reason : ,]

1/22/2009 12:43:27 PM

Holy fuck.

1/22/2009 12:43:32 PM

those crazy azns

1/22/2009 12:44:24 PM

How long ago did that guy here whack his girl on the tennis courts?

1/22/2009 12:44:38 PM

^ it's been 3-4 years since that happened I think.

1/22/2009 12:45:23 PM

i just defriended every asian on facebook

1/22/2009 12:46:39 PM

WOW...were people watching him do it?

1/22/2009 12:47:08 PM

holy cow

1/22/2009 12:48:42 PM

A guy tried to do this at work one time, but we stopped him. I have to say though, if there hadn't been several of us I would have probably just hung back and let him do his thing. Goddamn blood everywhere...by the time we got there the poor sonambitch had grabbed the blade with his hand trying to protect himself. On the plus side, he'll never have to part his hair in the morning again.

1/22/2009 12:53:38 PM

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"was no one there like hey maybe we should stop this punk beofre he cuts complely through her head. I mean it was a fucking steak knife you can't tell me that wouldn't take a hot minute to cut through someones neck"

this is what i was thinking. wtf.

1/22/2009 12:54:23 PM

This is crazy.

Seriously?

Did the people just sit and watch? That's a horrible memory to have.

1/22/2009 12:56:52 PM

wait was it actually a steak knife? maybe it was like a real knife he brought to the restaurant. but still...with a lot of knives it would take a hot minute to saw through someone's neck.

i'm so confused.

1/22/2009 12:58:13 PM

It's like the people on that Canadian bus. They just watched the dude get his head cut off.

1/22/2009 12:58:24 PM

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"was no one there like hey maybe we should stop this punk"

America is becoming a nation of weak idiots. More and more people act like everything is always someone else's responsibility.
("I'm not gonna save that girl, that's the police's job." "I'm not gonna read a book to my kid, that's the school's job.")

Is there [still?] a ban on guns on that campus? You'd think that after what happened there before, people would be packing heat...

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2009 12:58:52 PM

WTF is with the asians that VT is recruiting

1/22/2009 12:59:55 PM

I mean for fuck's sake hit him with a pitcher or take a chair to his head if you're afraid to get close

fucking do something, who the hell is going to sit there in a restaurant while a dude cuts off this chick's head?

that's fucking horrifying, both the act and the [lack of] reaction of everyone else

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2009 1:00:34 PM

wasn't there a similar stabbing on the tennis courts at NCSU a couple years ago? same situation, azn grad students.

1/22/2009 1:00:38 PM

it's all those deceitful charlatans

1/22/2009 1:00:40 PM

Moral of the story... No more asians at VT?

1/22/2009 1:00:44 PM

jesus that's bananas

1/22/2009 1:01:53 PM

nevermind. only the chick killed was an azn grad student, the guy that killed her was white

1/22/2009 1:02:15 PM

Nah, at NCSU it was a nerdy white grad student in love with an azn grad student way out of his league. He also used a gun, like a real American.

1/22/2009 1:03:12 PM

^ true. she was also married and he was a 49 year old grad student

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Wang

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 1:04 PM. Reason : a]

1/22/2009 1:03:41 PM

Wait, was it actually a steak knife? I read "kitchen knife" in another article, which could be something like a chef's knife, making the job go a bit faster. Still...you have to wonder that he completed the decapitation before anyone stopped him. Though if no one was around when he initially attacked, it could have been clear that she was dead before anyone happened by I suppose...

scary either way.

1/22/2009 1:04:14 PM

probably a cutco

1/22/2009 1:04:17 PM

it was probably a similar knife to the one OJ used

1/22/2009 1:05:10 PM

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"fucking do something, who the hell is going to sit there in a restaurant while a dude cuts off this chick's head? that's fucking horrifying, both the act and the [lack of] reaction of everyone else"

All you can do is take some basic defense lessons (both physical and mental,) and perhaps some handgun training. Encourage your family, friends, and others to do the same.

When seconds count, police are only minutes away.

1/22/2009 1:07:37 PM

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"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. "

They were both Asian

1/22/2009 1:07:56 PM

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"it was probably a similar knife to the one OJ used"

wat

dude was found innocent

1/22/2009 1:08:56 PM

Guaranteed to cut through spinal tissue and cartilage just as if you were using it to cut butter.

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM. Reason : i]

1/22/2009 1:09:23 PM

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"All you can do is take some basic defense lessons (both physical and mental,) and perhaps some handgun training. Encourage your family, friends, and others to do the same. When seconds count, police are only minutes away."

ahh yes b/c anyone with a permit would be hangin out with a pistol on campus

1/22/2009 1:10:02 PM

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"fucking do something, who the hell is going to sit there in a restaurant while a dude cuts off this chick's head? that's fucking horrifying, both the act and the [lack of] reaction of everyone else"

well I'm sure as hell not fucking with the dude after he just did that

though most of the time, there's a delay due to shock when you see something that crazy... I mean, who in that restaurant would be prepared for that?

1/22/2009 1:11:21 PM

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"I mean for fuck's sake hit him with a pitcher or take a chair to his head if you're afraid to get close fucking do something, who the hell is going to sit there in a restaurant while a dude cuts off this chick's head? that's fucking horrifying, both the act and the [lack of] reaction of everyone else"

They've done studies on this. When action needs to be taken and people are in a group an individual is much less likely to act than if he/she were the only one there.

Everyone is always going to be quick to say, "well if I was there I would have done this," but you'll never know unless it happens.

1/22/2009 1:13:47 PM

A) I am guessing the "Au Bon Pain" restaurant doesn't serve steak (and i just found a menu online to confirm). So i am guessing this was a knife he brought.

B) If he had a decently well kept serrated knife, this could have taken less than a 5 seconds to accomplish.

1/22/2009 1:14:17 PM

Dude was asian, you know his knives are sharp

1/22/2009 1:15:52 PM

Yeah, but he wasn't Japanese. I've used Japanese knives that could accomplish this shit from another building. Shit was THAT SHARP.

1/22/2009 1:18:27 PM

i keep my Harris Teeter free giveaway knives pretty damn sharp

1/22/2009 1:31:58 PM

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"i just defriended every asian on facebook "

shouldnt you befriend them so they like you and dont do shit like this

all jokes aside this is really messed up

1/22/2009 1:47:59 PM

Holy Christ, that's insane

1/22/2009 2:03:59 PM

i wouldn't have helped because i'd be lying unconscious on the floor

1/22/2009 2:05:54 PM

people probably thought it was a joke and it was just ketchup...and that her head would pop up and they would scream SUPRISE!

1/22/2009 2:07:51 PM

holy shit

1/22/2009 2:11:03 PM

^^

or they were all looking around for ashton kutcher

1/22/2009 2:11:18 PM

http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/new_river_valley/article/virginia_tech_murder_graduate_student_decapitated/25622/

updated article, 7 witnesses, nobody tried to stop it.

1/22/2009 2:13:39 PM

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"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 had only 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. "

Update, the killer was an econ graduate student. No wonder, that's literally like the third hardest pHd to obtain out there or something.

1/22/2009 2:14:02 PM

so pursuing a tough degree is an excuse for decapitation?

1/22/2009 2:33:08 PM

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

how can some girl piss you off enough in two weeks to chisel off her dome at a sandwich shop

1/22/2009 2:39:22 PM