Yang Xin (or Xin Yang, 杨欣 in Chinese), was Zhu Haiyang's Virginia Tech decapitated victim. So far it's unknown what's the motive behind Zhu Haiyang's horrific and gruesome slaying against Yang Xin who was said to a Canada-educated First Degree holder. But here are unofficial counts read from a post at C3online.cn.
Yang Xin (or Xin Yang) arrived only 13 days in US when murdered
Yang Xin, 22, from Beijing, just arrived at Virginia Tech for studying accounting on January 8. On that day, it was said Zhu Haiyang picked her up. And in the following days, Zhu temporarily accommodated Yang as the latter could not find a house on campus during the Winter break. During this short period, Zhu Haiyang had developed affectations on Yang Xin, but later only found she had an engaged boyfriend in China and would get married soon, as a consequence, Zhu resorted the violence to end Yang's life.
Update: Yang Xin graduated from Canada's Memorial University.
An alumnist of Memorial University has been murdered in the United States. Memorial's Department of Student Affairs says 22 year old Xin Yang of Beijing graduated from Business at Memorial in 2007, and worked here in the city for a short time. 2 weeks ago she began her graduate studies in accounting at Virginia Tech. According to Virgina Tech's website, on Wednesday evening, Yang was attacked by another student with a knife in a campus restaurant. The suspect - a 25 year old male doctoral student, was charged with first degree murder. [Vocm.com]
Zhu Haiyang Photographed at his Master Degree convocation
We said in the earlier post, Zhu Haiyang's previous private life was a little messy, it seemed so did Yang Xin. Citrus1111 said in a message on Hoopchina.com Yang had a nickname called "Socket" when studying in Canada, hinting she might have made some boyfriends there and had sexual intercourses with them.
Zhu Haiyang took a picture by himself when laying on the sleep matress on a bed train
Zhu Haiyang attended an international conference in 2006 (Zhu Haiyang Photos at QQ.com)