33 deaths now: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/student-beheaded-at-v-tech/2009/01/23/1232471547330.html

You just wonder what is in their heads...very little is known about him at the moment, especially with regards to motive.

Not known to be mentally disturbed, wasn't arguing with her at the time, a PhD student and was obviously one of her friends.

School records showed that Haiyang was listed as one of Xin's emergency contacts.

Yet in broad daylight in a very public space, he decapitates an innocent girl with a kitchen knife seemingly unprompted.

What the fuck is going on?

General Nuke Em

United States680 Posts

January 23 2009 04:54 GMT

Yes this is the same massacre thus the death toll of the shootings from two years ago is rising...right...

ilovejonn

Canada2548 Posts

January 23 2009 04:56 GMT

what the fuck are going through these people's heads..

Smurg

Australia3818 Posts

January 23 2009 04:57 GMT

It's a horrible murder and it's at V-Tech, I didn't say it was part of the massacre - it's part of their death toll as a tertiary institution...beside the point. Main focus = the decapitation that just happened, not the title of the thread.

I almost said use your head.

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

January 23 2009 05:00 GMT

wtf... so he just decapitated her in a coffee shop or something? damn...

edit: reminds me of the article we had on here a while ago about the decapitation on that greyhound bus

Cloud

Sexico5880 Posts

January 23 2009 05:00 GMT

What? This guy is strong as jack bauer or he was using an axe and a base. No way in hell he just suddenly beheaded a full grown person with a kitchen knife.

LosingID8

CA10828 Posts

January 23 2009 05:01 GMT

wtf

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 23 2009 05:02 GMT

idk i think its possible if the knife was really sharp, or if by kitchen knife they meant butcher knife or something. This guy is a psychopath.

koreasilver

9109 Posts

January 23 2009 05:04 GMT

What's with us Asians lately in North America.

MaZza[KIS]

Australia2110 Posts

January 23 2009 05:04 GMT

#10

Man.. I've beaten people up before... and I mean bloodied them, but to stab - no - BEHEAD someone would be insaaaaaane. It would require so much hate and physical exertion.

Unbelievable. Acts like that are beyond the scope of forgiveness. You'd have to be a truly benevolent soul to forgive him.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

January 23 2009 05:04 GMT

#11

v-tech must actually be a satanic cult

just your standard sacrifice folks, move along now, nothing to see here

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

January 23 2009 05:05 GMT

#12

On January 23 2009 14:04 MaZza[KIS] wrote:
Man.. I've beaten people up before... and I mean bloodied them, but to stab - no - BEHEAD someone would be insaaaaaane. It would require so much hate and physical exertion.

Unbelievable. Acts like that are beyond the scope of forgiveness. You'd have to be a truly benevolent soul to forgive him.

well to me, beating someone bloody is insane

imperfect

Canada1652 Posts

January 23 2009 05:05 GMT

#13

ugh wtf is this shit

this is disgusting. must be quite scary; the massacre then this..

SnowFantasy

4173 Posts

January 23 2009 05:07 GMT

#14

I guess this isn't the type of thing to joke about.

I hate threads like this. So depressing.

Not sure how people can get themselves to do this.

Smurg

Australia3818 Posts

January 23 2009 05:07 GMT

#15

I'm shocked...as always - I can't believe this ever happening, especially in such a setting...relaxed and peaceful most of the time.

Well, he had a kitchen knife with him...obviously it was planned to a degree. As things unfold I'm sure we'll find out more...hopefully not a fucked up video again. "You've got blood on your hands that will never wash off."

Often I enjoy a coffee with my friends, the 'brutally slay' mood never strikes.

Possibility of it being her refusing his sexual advances, yet not knowing he was a complete crazy?

Ps: What ever did happen with the bus-killing in Canada?

Malongo

Chile3472 Posts

January 23 2009 05:11 GMT

#16

Beacuse of the etnicity and the age of them this looks more like a crime of passion to me. Also this was done in daylight and in a public place, i dont see this being too much premeditated, yet this violence is horrible.

tec27

United States3700 Posts

January 23 2009 05:21 GMT

#17

I go to VT, and I'm fairly pissed off at how the administration handles this shit. I was about 400 feet from the building where this happened when it happened, and all I noticed out of the ordinary was an ambulance showing up. I walked back to my dorm, started watching a movie with some of my friends, and about 30 minutes later got an alert telling me there was a murder in the GLC and that we should stay where we are. But that was *all* they told us. Basically "you might be in danger, but we're not gonna give you any information that you could use to protect yourself with." They didn't even release the race of the suspect until 5 hours later. They tout their damn alert system as if its amazing, but its downright useless. All the alerts they give out are vague and don't tell you anything useful.

This isn't the first time they've sucked at giving out info either. Someone jumped out of the 7th floor window of my dorm last year, and it took them *36* hours to even email us telling us that something had happened (and they were very vague about that), even though there was a dead body lying outside the front door. I find it absolutely despicable that newspapers 30+ minutes away get information on this stuff faster than the students that go to the damn school.

Enough of my ranting though. This murder is fairly unbelievable. The place it happened is rarely visited by anyone other than graduate students, and is fairly quiet. On top of that, the girl listed her murderer as an emergency contact. Makes no fucking sense atm, but they won't release anything before they go to court.

KurtistheTurtle

United States1966 Posts

January 23 2009 05:23 GMT

#18

I feel horrible that something like this happened, and even more that it happened at a place of "higher education." I hope her family can find the best possible peace they can.

Orlandu

China2450 Posts

January 23 2009 05:24 GMT

#19

That's an interesting article, but it doesn't really describe much about the actual attack, mostly just background information about it. I guess there's still a lot that's left unknown, but I was curious as to what exactly happened. It's no easy task to decapitate someone with a kitchen knife, let alone in a cafe on a college campus. That would be very hard to do without anyone seeing or hearing anything, and it said that calls were made to the police (who responded very quickly apparently), so I'm very interested in knowing what triggered those calls and either how the attacker finished the job that fast or how he was able to do as much as he did before the calls were made without drawing attention to himself.

Regardless, this is a terrible thing and it's a shame that this school has to suffer even more trauma such as this