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Haiyang Zhu Arrested For Murder on Virginia Tech Campus: Victim Was Beheaded

By Steve Huff in bizarre, homicide
Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:40 am

zhu.jpgUPDATE: See latest story Haiyang Zhu, Virginia Tech Grad Student, Confesses to Decapitating Woman Who Spurned His Love...

The gruesome murder that occurred on the campus of Virginia Tech last night had nothing in common with the horrific mass shooting at the institution in April, 2007. In this case, police have arrested 25-year-old graduate teaching assistant Haiyang Zhu, a Chinese national who was studying in the Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

The massacre committed nearly 2 years ago by disturbed Korean student Seung-Hui Cho did contribute to an efficient system of campus alerts that kept students at the university on the their toes for several hours Wednesday night.

The first 911 call came into police last night around 7 p.m. A woman was being assaulted inside the Graduate Life Center, just outside the Au Bon Pain cafe.

Haiyang Zhu was arrested shortly after the officer arrived. The victim was dead. A probable murder weapon was also taken into evidence.

Little has been reported about the victim in this case, but one online news service reported this morning that "Police say a woman who was slain on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday was decapitated." Shortly after this post was first published, the Associated Press confirmed this report

For further reading:

"Steger: VT slaying 'isolated, very personal tragedy'"

"Va. Tech stabbing suspect charged with murder"

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