Remembering Xin Yang, all local victims of violence
January 17, 2011
As the spring semester was beginning two years ago, on the night of Jan. 21, 2009, Xin Yang was killed by a fellow graduate student in the Graduate Life Center.
Content on Xin Yang:
June 16, 2010
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Bobby Turk refused Tuesday to reduce the life sentence on former Virgiania Tech graduate student Haiyang Zhu, who received the life sentence at a hearing in April for the Jan. 21, 2009 killing of former Tech graduate
Zhu sentenced to life in prison
April 19, 2010
A judge decided Monday that the Mr. Hyde inside former Virginia Tech graduate student Haiyang Zhu was too risky to ever be set free.
Beheading suspect pleads guilty
December 21, 2009
Montgomery County Circuit Court today accepted the guilty plea of former Virginia Tech graduate student Haiyang Zhu, who was charged with the first-degree murder of fellow graduate student Xin Yang.
December 11, 2009
A plea hearing has been set for the former Virginia Tech graduate student accused of the Jan. 21 murder of a fellow graduate student in the Graduate Life Center.
Zhu case will move to grand jury
May 29, 2009
A judge ruled Friday that sufficient probable cause exists to take the first-degree murder case against Graduate Life Center stabbing suspect Haiyang Zhu to a grand jury.
May 22, 2009
Upon evaluation, Virginia Tech student Haiyang Zhu was found competent to stand trial.
Letter: Be careful not to glorify the crime
January 27, 2009
In Friday's article, "Details emerge in GLC attack" (CT, Jan. 23), the authors provided an eye-catching yet gruesome image in the article's opening sentence.
After slaying, searches reveal little
January 26, 2009
The Montgomery County Sherriff's Office executed search warrants on Haiyang Zhu's University Boulevard Apartment and Xin Yang's Donaldson Brown residence last Friday.
Letter: Come together in face of tragedy
January 26, 2009
In the wake of a fellow Hokie's heinous murder there has been an outpouring of condolences, sympathies, and immense feelings of loss. But, sadly, there has also been a torrent of senseless bigotry from other Virginia Tech students.