Decapitation at Virginia Tech

When you think it can't get any worse we learn about the decapitation (That's chopping off a head) of a 22 -year old graduate student from China. This happened at Virginia Tech.

Xin Yang was killed with a kitchen knife in the college's café. It seems that another graduate student who knew Xin was the killer. I cannot imagine killing someone let along decapitating them. This is rage at its worst and most extreme. This happened on January 22. Xin had only been at Virginia Tech for 2 weeks. She is from Beijing and came to Virginia Tech to study accounting. Police got two 911 calls right after 7:00p.m. on Wednesday.

My goodness - what could have made Haiyang Zhu also of China but not Beijing so angry at Xin? Haiyan is from Ningbo and it seems she had no reason for the killing. There is a connection though because Xin had listed Haiyang as an emergency contact so perhaps she ended up at Virginia Tech because she knew Haiyang. Was this a feud that traveled from China to the United States?

Haiyang started a graduate program last fall. She was in a Ph.D. program in agricultural and applied economics. She certainly was bright enough to have known the consequences of her actions which usually (I watch a lot of police/law shows.) means it was a crime of passion.

Haiyang is being charged with first-degree murder. She is at the Montgomery County Jail with no bail having been set. Haiyang has a lawyer names Stephanie Cox.

Xin was living in the Graduate Life Center which is where the café is. The two girls were having coffee there. Seven witnesses give or take said that they didn't think the girls were arguing before the incident but I think people have different ways of arguing.

Haiyang was taken into custody immediately. There is no doubt that she is the killer of Xin Yang. There were no red flags on Haiyang. Neither the police nor any mental health professionals at Virginia Tech knew her.

You may remember that Virginia Tech is where a student shot 32 people and then killed himself in 2007. Yikes, I wouldn't send my kids here I must admit.

Virginia GovernorTimothy M. Kaine offered condolences to the campus saying, "My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of Xin Yang today - and with the broader Virginia Tech community," he said in a statement. "The tragic attack on campus this week has no doubt revived terrible memories for countless members of the Hokie family."

Source

AP