I heard this as a headline for the local news.  Searched cnn, local news stations, etc. and couldn't find anything.  This article is from abc.com:

Police: VaTech Grad Student Knew Suspected Killer
Chinese graduate student slain at Virginia Tech coffee shop knew attacker, police say

Alone and in a new country, graduate student Xin Yang reached out to other Chinese students at Virginia Tech when she arrived two weeks ago, trying to establish her life on campus.

She went to social events with international students, got in touch with the campus center that works to help them adjust and appeared to be making friends as she settled into her accounting program, those who had met her said.

But one of the friendships may have led to her death: Police say she was decapitated with a kitchen knife while having coffee with a Chinese doctoral student in a campus cafe Wednesday night.

The killing stunned a campus that still has vivid memories of the mass slayings in April 2007, when a student gunman shot 32 people and then took his own life. The stabbing was the first slaying on campus since then.

"An act of violence like this brings back memories of April 16," university President Charles Steger said. "I have no doubt that many of us feel especially distraught."


ETA:

Just found this on cnn.com (finally).  This is just the link to the article, but it gives a little more information than abc.com did.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/22/virginia.tech.death/index.html

so she was just decapitated in the middle of an open coffee shop? that's completely insane.

so she was just decapitated in the middle of an open coffee shop? that's completely insane.



Exactly.  Someone would have seen something and stopped it, right?  What do you think they aren't saying?

remember the Greyhound bus incident... I think people are either too scared to act or just thanking whoever that's not happening to them....awful tho! just awful

Was she also one of these?

http://www.juggaloworld.net/paintup/J/JawsJuggalo01.jpg

It seems to be a trend. Wherever there is facepaint, knives follow.

http://www.juggalonews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=802

http://hamptonroads.com/2009/01/va-tech-identifies-suspect-decapitation-campus

"Seven people - customers and Au Bon Pain staff - saw the attack and fled the restaurant. Two people called 911, he said."

jfc

signature banned as well

I dunno, that's a lot of blood flying everywhere, dude.  Shouldn't we like do something?

Nah, cops will be there in a sec.  My dad's a lawyer and he says you shouldn't interfere with this kinda stuff.  Future liability or something...

Cool.  So they can just sew it back onto the neck at the ER?

http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/behead.gif