Who died in the Virginia Tech beheading?”
A Virginia Tech graduate student from China was killed in a savage beheading – decapitated with a kitchen knife while drinking coffee in a campus cafe – by another graduate student who not only knew her, he was also listed as one of her emergency contacts. Xin Yang, 22, was beheaded Wednesday night in a brutal attack just two weeks after arriving at the campus from Beijing on January 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. Haiyang was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. His attorney, Stephanie Cox, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Haiyang and Xin had been having coffee in a cafe in the Graduate Life Centre, where Xin was living. About seven oth
CHRISTIANSBURG (AP) — A judge has sent to a grand jury the case of a Virginia Tech student accused in the beheading of another student. Sitting in Christiansburg, General District Judge Gino Williams heard graphic testimony from two witnesses today before sending the case of Haiyang Zhu to Montgomery County grand jurors. Zhu is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 22-year-old Xin Yang, who was beheaded in her dormitory cafe where she met him for coffee Jan. 21. Cafe worker Corey Cox described the attack and a Tech police officer, Nicole Irvine, testified that Zhu was carrying the woman’s head when she arrived at the scene. She said he dropped the head when she ordered him to put his hands in the air.
