Can only hope they get caught and soon....
Posted on 01/22/2009 5:27:24 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A female Chinese graduate student has been decapitated by a fellow student at Virginia Tech, the scene of the worst school shooting in US history in 2007, police said Thursday.
At approximately 7:00 pm Wednesday (0000 GMT Thursday), 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 and been decapitated.
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sad.
To decapitate someone by ‘stabbing’ you would need a wide knife.
That is terrible. Poor woman...
Once again, the citizens were armed, and could not intervene.
Sorry folks, should read “were not” armed...
7 witnesses and no one killed the stupid f****r?
VT is a gun free zone. You are wrong.
As a note, if anyone in my family as decapitated, everyone one of my families attackers would have the same done to them.
Fact, not to be construed as a threat of any kind.
What an awful story. I would imagine it would be fairly difficult to decapitate someone, I mean, you would have to go thru the spine. Maybe it’s not that hard, but it seems like it would be. At least with a knife.
I saw a close-up video of a jihadi decapitation a few years ago. I want to tell you, I was sick for awhile.
I have absolutely avoided seeing those, because I don’t think I would ever be able to sleep at night.
What is it with VT having twice now an Asian student going murderous on campus?
You are correct, it will change you forever.
People really need to start arming themselves and carrying a firearm with them when they go out. The world has gone nutso and like the “messiah” says, it’s only going to get worse!
Is he possibly a Chinese Muslim? I don’t think decapitation is a common Chinese habit, is it? I’m guessing he was a jilted or offended lover.
VT no doubt has a lot of Asian students, it’s probably a moderately high-pressure, competitive environment to begin with, and many Asian students are under a lot of pressure from their families to excel, get super high-paying jobs, etc. The latter things are all good things, but sometimes I think parents can get a little carried away.
Thats two for two in the muderous chinese stundents at VT?
Whats up? Do they have to flunk some kind of test to get in there, or what?
Why are they even there at all?
No Americans want that job either?
Seven witnesses. Yet no one to defend that girl.
Granting that it may have been too late to help her, I wonder if anyone even tried?
Could no one intervene?
I wonder if video games have anything to do with this. I am not familiar with games but aren’t a lot of them very violent and feature decapitations?
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Yes, that was a type O. Check the next post where I corrected it. No threat taken...
My heart and prayers go out to her parents and any brothers and/or sisters she might have had
“many asian students are under a lot of pressure..to excel,”
My freshman year at the University, I had a roommate from Hong Kong. She would get very upset with herself if she did not get perfect grades. An “A” was not good enough, it must be an “A+”. She would tell me of her failure and said her imperfection was due to a “careless mistake”. She was very hard on herself. She was a brilliant student.
No. Video games do not have anything to do with this. Video games are not a legitimate scapegoat. I have played VERY violent video games for years and have yet to commit ANY acts of violence...hell, I haven’t even ever gotten into a FIGHT with someone!
Video games don’t cause this kind of behavior, you’re right. But that’s not to say they don’t have anything to do with this.
The subconscious mind is a tricky thing. It can’t meaningfully distinguish between reality and a particularly vivid visualization. To the subconscious, they are the same thing: prior memories and therefore reference points for future conduct.
Particularly detailed first person violent video games do present the subconscious mind with vivid, real memories of unbridled violence (where as older generation video games didn’t come close to such a vivid visualization). To be fair, a person with a particularly good imagination can create even more vivid (and therefore ‘real’) reference points. The problem isn’t the game (or someone’s imagination), but to say they don’t have anything to do with this isn’t accurate.
I knew I could never ever view such a thing. Imagining it is awful enough. The killers who did that to Daniel Pearl, are still no doubt wandering the Earth.
I lived right across the street from the VT campus when the massacre occurred.
I actually heard the shots. I thought it was construction at first.
I have never seen so many police in my life.
I have never seen so much news media in my life.
Then the next day the President showed up.
What a strange few days that was.
I will answer any questions you have, cause I was there.
“What is it with VT having twice now an Asian student going murderous on campus?”
And don’t forget the nice chinese man on that Canadian bus who decided to decapitate the fellow sitting next to him.
Then there was the incident in Beijing during the Olympics.
I would be curious to see how many violent crimes are actually attributable to violence in video games. I would surmise that the number would be infinitesimally small...
I agree. But I didn’t suggest otherwise.
Absolutely not.
Cho wasn’t Chinese.
Certainly, I’m not the first to say: “It was Bush’s fault.”
I guess I’ll take your word for it. I do not believe in any way it is a scapegoat but it wouldn’t surprise me to find out some people are vulnerable to dehumanizing their perceived enemies.
Students were probably taught not to be vigalantes and didn't want to escalate the violence.
Man had a lot of anger stored up to decapitate her. Or is he a professional assassin posing as a student?
Not sure if fox has this correct, the local report was she was just stabbed in the chest. And they also said she was a graduate student.
If you are martial art weapons trained then something like this would be extremely simple to perform.
Can only hope they get caught and soon....
Here’s the official version
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/pdf/affidavit012209.pdf
Warning: Very graphic and ugly
They most likely did as they were taught, they called 911 on their cell.
1 of the boys who was shot up at VT came to my work as an intern in 2007. He was shot in the arm and leg, and was in PT for them. He was good with his leg but still having some (minor) trouble with his arm.
It’s not good to “desensitize” children with these things - that are very realistic (and careless, too - being the CRIMINAL, for God’s sake? Complete with soulless casual glibness when raping/stealing/killing?).
It can have an effect exactly as marketing/advertizing has an effect. To deny 1 is to deny the other.
I may be one of the few on FR with actual experience decapitating a man-sized animal. I used to hunt feral hogs with a knife until I got too old for it.
If you have a good sharp knife, it is not nearly as difficult as you might imagine. You have to find a joint in the spine.
The al queada videos were done with a dull knife and were carried out so as to prolong the agony.
I thought I’d be able to watch it in a detached manner, but that didn’t work. The worst part was the guy still screaming for a few seconds after the decap.
I think about all of them every day.
I will for some time.
If he was a radical Chinese Islamist; could be anything that set him off; and. . .or. .. perhaps he had ideas of entertaining her, here in USA and she set him straight. I would like to know if he was a Muslim, however. . .
Whatever; what a horrible, horrible unfolding. But Media better get the facts - and share them.
If he was a radical Chinese Islamist; could be anything that set him off; and. . .or. .. perhaps he had ideas of entertaining her, here in USA and she set him straight. I would like to know if he was a Muslim, however. . .
Whatever; what a horrible, horrible unfolding. But Media better get the facts - and share them.
>>Yet no one to defend that girl.<<
And unable to defend herself.
It would appear to this observer that the school has incurred a ‘special duty’ to protect students in the aftermath of the Cho attack, if it continues to refuse to allow students the means to defend themselves.
“Deprivation of civil rights under color of law”, anyone?
OTOH, maybe the only way VT will get the message would be for the students to vote with their feet, and transfer to safer campi...
That's where the PARENTS are supposed to step in and do their jobs...
Lack of parenting is more of a problem than is the proliferation of violent video games.
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