Less than 2 years since the Virginia Tech Massacre, the campus has been hit with more violence.
This time, however, the violence was isolated to a single fatal attack.
A yet unidentified female grad student was stabbed to death in the cafe at the Graduate Life Center Wednesday night around 7:00pm. A revamped emergency alert system ordered students to stay put while police investigated the incident.
Minutes later, authorities arrested Chinese graduate student Haiyang Zhu and recovered the knife believed to be the murder weapon. Zhu was charged with first-degree murder. He is being held without bail.
It is believed that the victim knew her alleged assailant.
An hour later, students were allowed to resume activity.
Our thoughts go out to the victim’s family and friends and the entire V.T. campus.
