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January 22, 2009
Early Wednesday morning, a 22-year-old female Chinese graduate student was decapitated by another Virginia Tech student at a Campus Cafe. Yang Xin was murdered at the "Au Bon Pain" cafe on the Blacksburg Virginia tech campus. University Officials report that it was 25-year-old Zhu Huiyang, of Ningbo, China, who killed Xin with a knife. The two were said to have known each other prior to the incident. Mark Owczarski, a Virginia Tech spokesman, confirmed the murder saying that seven witnesses were in the cafe when Xin was attacked, and that there had been no events leading up to the attack. The Virginia Tech university newspaper stated that a 911 emergency call was dialed as soon as the assault occured. It also said that when the police arrived at the scene of the crime, Yang's head had been cut off, and was lying beside a bloody kitchen knife. Apparently, when the officer arrived at the cafe, she found Yang's head in the hands of Zhu. Owczarski went on to describe how horrific and tragic these events were, particularly in view of what happened several years ago with the Virginia Tech massacre. Zhu Huiyang, the murderer of Yang, is currently being held in a county jail, and has been charged with first-degree murder.
Personally, I believe that this event is a sad reflection on the pervasive violence in society. It sadly creates a bad reputation for Virginia Tech as an unsafe university campus. People will now begin to view this place as unsafe and unfit to attend. Not only does it shed a bad light on the university, but it brings back memories of the tragic events that occured in 2007. In April 2007, a 23-year-old South Korean Virginia tech student shot several teachers as well as 32 fellow classmates before committing suicide. These senseless crimes are truly a sad reflection of the lack of safety on university campuses which should be the one place where the brightest in society can seek knowledge without fear.
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