On April 9, 20 10, Zhu Haiyang was convicted of first-degree murder by a local court judge and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. When the judge tried the case, he described it as a cold-blooded and carefully calculated crime. Zhu Haiyang, a 26-year-old defendant, apologized to the relatives of the deceased and the local community before hearing the verdict.
Because of unsuccessful courtship, Zhu Haiyang killed Yang Xin, a 22-year-old female classmate, in the campus coffee shop on the evening of June 65438+1October 2 1 last year. The letter in prison revealed that Yang's refusal forced him to kill because he loved Yang Xin too much.
Zhu Haiyang, 25 years old, majored in 200 1 international trade, School of Economics and Trade, Shanghai Ocean University (formerly Shanghai Fisheries University). In the autumn of 2008, he went to study in the United States and studied for a doctorate in agriculture and applied economics at Virginia Tech. June 5438 +2009 10, a compatriot female student was brutally killed in the coffee shop of Virginia Tech University, which aroused social concern and discussion.
Zhu Haiyang incident: On the evening of June+10/October 2 1 Sunday, 5438, 19: 06, the local police in Virginia called and said that a female student was killed in the coffee shop of the Graduate Life Center of Virginia Tech University. Four minutes later, the police rushed to the crime scene and found a girl with multiple knives lying in a pool of blood. I met the suspect Zhu Haiyang on the spot. The 25-year-old male graduate student from China was immediately detained.
Virginia Tech police confirmed on the 22nd that there was a murder in this school on 2 1. The victim Yang Xin and the suspect Zhu Haiyang are both students from China. The police said that Zhu Haiyang's criminal motive is not clear at present, and he has been charged with first-degree murder. No bail.
The victim Yang Xin, female, (Xin Yang, transliteration), is from Beijing, China. She is 22 years old and just arrived in the United States on October 8th, 65438/kloc-0, studying accounting at Virginia Tech.
According to the news published on the website of Virginia Tech University, the murder happened in a restaurant on the first floor of the graduate student life center of Virginia Tech University at 19: 06 EST.
At that time, there were seven people in the restaurant besides Zhu and Yang. According to the testimony of some witnesses at the scene, Yang Xin and I were having coffee in the restaurant at that time, and there was no quarrel in advance, but Zhu suddenly attacked Yang with a knife, causing the latter to die on the spot.
The police rushed to the scene at 19: 00 and arrested the suspect on the spot. The victim showed no signs of life. The police also found the murder weapon at the scene, which was a kitchen knife. It is reported that the suspect was extremely cruel and the victim was beheaded.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Justice, when Nicole Irwin, a police officer from Virginia Tech, arrived at the scene, he saw Zhu Haiyang covered in blood and holding Yang Xin's head in her hand.
It is said that Yang Xin, a 22-year-old girl who once chased the victim in Zhu Haiyang, just arrived in the United States from Beijing on the 8th of this month and began to study accounting at Virginia Tech. Zhu Haiyang, a 25-year-old suspect from Ningbo, entered school in autumn of 2008 to study for a doctorate in agriculture and applied economics.
According to the emergency contact file provided by the school, Zhu Haiyang is one of the emergency contacts registered in Yang Xin, so it is confirmed that they know each other. The school said that since Yang Xin was new here, Zhu Haiyang helped her get familiar with the environment. This kind of mutual assistance is common among the 500 international students in China.
According to CCTV, a graduate student in China who knew Zhu Haiyang said that the murderer and the deceased didn't know each other when they were in China. When Yang Xin first arrived in the eighth day of junior high school, he was a stranger and met him from Zhu Haiyang through the introduction of his classmates. As the school is still on winter vacation and the dormitory is not yet open, Yang Xin stayed in Zhu's rented apartment off campus for a few days.
A friend of Zhu Haiyang said that about 10 days before the murder, Zhu Haiyang told him that he liked Yang Xin very much. This friend of Zhu Haiyang's is also a student of Virginia Tech. Unwilling to be named, he said: "Zhu Haiyang said that she likes Yang Xin very much and wants to be her boyfriend." But Zhu Haiyang didn't tell him whether Yang Xin had a crush on him.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhu Haiyang