Zhu Haiyang Sentenced Life Without Parole

Haiyang Zhu, Virginia Tech student who beheaded a female Chinese student in an on campus cafe, was sentenced to life without parole.

Two other Chinese students who had been accused of committing murder killed themselves while under custody. Yin Zhan hanged himself after staying one year in jail. Zhang Dong hanged before sentence.

High Profile Homicide Cases of Chinese Students in the US

Murderer	updates	Graduate School	Crime Date	Hometown	Undergraduate Major	Undergraduate College	Victim	victim undergraduate college
Xiao Chuanlin	suicide by self-hanging at the crime scene		September 30, 2015			North Seattle College	Wang Yaolin	Indian University
Ma Tian	fatally shot by police	Clarkson University	September 10, 2015	Sanya, Hainan	Mathematics	Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	Jiang Yazhen	Lu Dong University
Li Xiangnan	surrendered to Chinese police, charged		September, 2014	Wenzhou, Zhejiang	Business	University of Iowa	Shao Tong	Iowa State Universtiy
Ci Yongfei	arrested	UIUC (PhD), Oregon State University (Master)	September 27, 2013	Shijiazhuang	Mathematics	Beijing Communication University	Mengchen Huang	China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Lei Guanghui (Philip)	arrested	University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MS), Wake Forest University (PhD, incomplete), Lanzhou University (MS)	April 2013		Physics	Lanzhou University	Wu Yan, Liu Bi Fang	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
He Xiaobao	arrested	Northeastern University	8/17/2011	Tianjin	Management	Tianjin Normal University	Li Shuai	Beijing University of Communications
Li Tianle	charged	University of Pennsylvania	1/2011	Beijing	Chemistry	Beijing University	Wang Xiaoye	Nanjing University
Wang Lishan	charged	Indiana University	2010	Fujian	Medical	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	Indian colleague
Yu Donghai	charged	University of Houston at Clear Lake	10/5/2009				Feng Ling
Zhu Haiyang	life without parole	Virginia Tech	1/21/2009	Ningbo	Agriculture and Applied Economics	Shanghai Ocean University	Yang Xin
Chen Danlei	death with 2 years suspension (in China)	Purdue University	8/20/2005	Sichuan	Mechanical Engineering	Qinghua University	He Lei	Qinghua University
Luo Haiming	40 Years	University of Louisiana Lafayette	5/2004	Shanghai	Biology	East China University of Science and Technology	Chen Ting
Zhang Dong	Hanged Self while in police custody 6/22/2004	University of Kentucky	2004	Puyang, Henan	Pharmacy	Beijing University	Gu Yan	Liaoning Polytechnic University
Yin Zhan	hanged in jail	Purdue University	8/2/2001	Shijiazhuang	Biology	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	Korean Sisters
Chen Shi	apprehended 2011, pleaded guilty 2015	Jacksonville State University	10/18/1996	Tianjin	Mathematics		Liu 'Linda' Zihui
Liu Ying	Suicide by gunshot at the scene		1993	Beijing	Physics	Beijing University	Yang Bin	Beijing University
Wu Weimin		Purdue University	3/1992			Beijing University of Technology	Wang Lijuan	Beijing University of Technology
Lu Gang	Suicide by gunshot at the scene	University of Iowa	11/1/1991	Beijing	Physics	Beijing University	Shang Linhua,	University of Science and Technology of China

A more complete list

A quick observation is the most dangerous profiling of potential murderer is: A male graduate student who was born in Beijing or Shanghai and went to college in his home city. Another thumb of rule is: most high profile Chinese students homicide cases involve three top Chinese universities: Beijing University, Qinghua University, and University of Science and Technology of China. BJU graduates always kill, USTC student always be killed, while Qinghua students killed and being killed.

Zhu Haiyang Killed and beheaded a female Chinese student Yang Xin at a cafe on the first floor of the University dorm Yang lived. Sentenced to life without parole on 4/19/2010

Luo Haiming Sentenced to 40 years in jail on 3/14/2006

Zhang Dong Killed a female Chinese student Gu Yan and dumped her body in a rural location.

Yin Zhan Killed two Korean female sisters, students of Purdue after an alleged road rage.Found hanged in his cell on 9/15/2004.

Chen Shi killed fellow JSU student Zihui Liu. Liu was last seen on 10/18/1996, and her half buried decomposed body was discovered by utility worker on 12/16/1996. Shi was arrested by USMS 14 years later in a Minneapolis Chinese restaurant where he worked as a manager.

VT Killing

A 22 years old female Virginia Tech student was fatally stabbed in a school student center, Graduate Life Center (GLC) where the girl resides. The victim is Yang Xin, a graduate student in Accounting from Beijing. Yang Xin was known as a diligent student who graduated from Memorial University of New Foundland in Canada. Yang earned a BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) in merely two years. After graduation Yang interned at a Subway store as assistant manager while preparing for GMAT, the entrance exam for graduate study in Business School. Yang arrived the States only days ago on Jan 8, 2009 to start her study at VT.


The killer is Zhu Haiyang, a graduate assistant in the Agriculture and Applied Economics Department. Zhu comes from Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. The killer was educated in Shanghai. According to posts on Internet forums, the killer got know the victim when he picked up the girl at the airport, arranged by the VT Chinese student association as a volunteer service for new students. The duo were seen together at the Au Bon Pain restaurant on the first floor of GLC around 7 pm Wednesday evening. There had been no sign of argument. Then the girl called 911; then the killer stabbed the girl. When police arrived, they found the murderer with the knife, and the girl, ..., decapitated. Officer Nicole Irvine who responded to the 911 call 'observed the suspect holding the head of the victim in his hand (Police Search Warrant Affidavit).' The killer has a personal web space at QQ titled 'Ocean's Ocean'.

The killer's apartment management staff described him as "rude and belligerent". Will Segar, the landlord said Zhu only came to his attention because of his bellicose interaction with those around him. Segar even talked to a Blacksburg police after he observed Zhu harassing other people. However, the officer told Segar there was nothing he could do, and suggested Segar talked to the international affairs at VT. Segar went ahead, but did not receive any 'useful advice on how to deal with Zhu.'

The killer's academic background was questioned too. Zhu graduated from a little known college after the Chinese government expand the college enrollment by ten times (from 600,000 per year in late 80s to 6 million per year in the 90a). His fellow Chinese friends praised him for English skills, but both his academic adviser Denise Mainville and the department head Kevin Boyle murmured on his academic performance when inquired by reporters. The vetting process of VT is obviously flawed to have admitted any students from these kind of nobody-heard-of schools. Nonetheless, a VT nod gave the killer a virtual mandate to act at will and a false sense of entitlement. It's possible. as speculated on the Net, the killer was angered so easily by hearing a single word 'no'. It's possible though, the killer had already been scolded by the Tech and had been facing a disgraceful dismissal, which might prompt him to execute one last stunt.

Although there's no easy way to prevent a sick murder from acting crazy thoughts into action, some alleged that the role the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars (ACSS) at Virginia Tech played was facilitated by the killer. People on online forums accused them to have arranged the killer to pick up the girl from the airport. The girl was also arranged to live in the killer's apartment for four days before she was assigned a school housing unit at GLC, where she was killed. After the incident, the ACSS promptly sent out a message barring anyone from disclosing any information. The ACSS also deleted all relevant discussions at a maillist and an online forum exclusive to Chinese students and scholars at VT. The killer has been known as an enthusiastic member of the ACSS, an official organization sponsored by the communism government. Some see the ACSS, an organization supposed to benefit all Chinese students, was utilized by a small group of greedy former communists (or communists wannabes) with personal interest. Simply put, any such communism outpost should have been banned from ground of college campus.

The victim's mother in Beijing was notified by telephone last night.

Chinese Student Arrested After Forked Female Chinese Student on Nose

Deng Chenxi, 22 year old, was arrested by Austin Police Department late night Wednesday. Deng stabbed a Chinese student in the Engineering Science Building with a 'fork'. The fork was struck onto the female student's nose. The student was initially treated by an EMT on the scene, then transferred to St. David's Medical Center. According to University of Texas, Deng was not a student at UT.

A witness Priscilla Chang said she saw a girl was bleeding and Deng being restrained on the ground by a group of students, "I saw the guy being pinned down by a few other guys, and he was going nuts... He was yelling some crazy stuff, but I couldn't really tell what it was - he seemed incoherent. He was fighting the guys trying to hold him down."

Information posted on MITBBS indicated that Deng was from Xinjiang and graduated from Beijing University. Deng's parents had been looking for Deng for days. He went to UT to visit a friend You Li last weekend, but did not return on time.

LinkedIn in shows Li You graduated from Beijing University with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2012. Li was enrolled in a Master Degree in Integrated Circuits and Systems in 2012 at UT. She interned at Freescale Semiconductor.

January 21, 2009, Virginia Tech, Chinese student Zhu Haiyang decapitated a female Chinese student Yang Xin at Au Bon Pain cafe with a kitchen knife in front of dozens of horrified patrons of the on campus cafe.

Update: Daily Texan has confirmed that the name of the female student is You Li.

Update: Police has confirmed the incident took place when a romantic relationship went sour. According to police, Chen followed all the way from China to track down his ex-girlfriend in a classroom after having audited multiple UT classes. The duo started an argument. According to police affidavit, Deng claimed that he forked the female student after being punched in face.

You's roommate Hongjiang Li said she was with You in a class on Wednesday night. She described how You had been trying to stay away from Chen, after Chen entered the classroom before class started. After class, You left to the hallway, and Chen followed.