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Assailant stabs to death father-in-law of U.S. men's volleyball team coach
MCT
Issue date: 8/14/08 Section: News
An assailant stabbed to death the father-in-law of the head coach of the U.S. men's indoor volleyball team Saturday and wounded the mother-in-law and a tour guide before jumping to his own death, in a brutal act that darkened the mood in China just hours after the dazzling onset of the Summer Olympics.
The attack occurred shortly after noon along an upper walkway of the Drum Tower, an ancient landmark that looms over central Beijing.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said the couple, Todd and Barbara Bachman, and a daughter, Elisabeth, were not wearing clothing that would identify them as part of the U.S. Olympic delegation when "an assailant wielding a knife" accosted them
Motives for the attack remained a mystery, and China's tightly controlled state media made only cursory mention of the slaying. Chinese Internet users, some of them concerned that the assault would embarrass the nation during the Olympics, launched a "human search engine" to track down details of the killer and his family and expose them to humiliation and retaliation.
The state Xinhua news agency identified the attacker by an identity card on his body, saying he was Tang Yongming, 47, from Hangzhou city in eastern China.
Tang acted alone, Xinhua said.
The agency said Tang had quit his job at a meter factory in Hangzhou, divorced his wife and vacated his rented house on Aug. 1.
"Tang has no criminal record. His neighbors said they hadn't seen any abnormal behavior from him before left Hangzhou," a spokesman with the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau told Xinhua.
It said Tang was not a petitioner, as people with grievances against the government are commonly called, although a 21-year-old son was once sentenced to prison for theft.
"We are now looking for Tang's ex-wife and elder brother, hoping to find out what he did before the incident in Beijing and figure out his motivation," the police spokesman told Xinhua.
In a brief statement, the U.S. Embassy described the knife assault as "a senseless act of violence" and said the assailant may have picked his victims at random.
The attack occurred shortly after noon along an upper walkway of the Drum Tower, an ancient landmark that looms over central Beijing.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said the couple, Todd and Barbara Bachman, and a daughter, Elisabeth, were not wearing clothing that would identify them as part of the U.S. Olympic delegation when "an assailant wielding a knife" accosted them
Motives for the attack remained a mystery, and China's tightly controlled state media made only cursory mention of the slaying. Chinese Internet users, some of them concerned that the assault would embarrass the nation during the Olympics, launched a "human search engine" to track down details of the killer and his family and expose them to humiliation and retaliation.
The state Xinhua news agency identified the attacker by an identity card on his body, saying he was Tang Yongming, 47, from Hangzhou city in eastern China.
Tang acted alone, Xinhua said.
The agency said Tang had quit his job at a meter factory in Hangzhou, divorced his wife and vacated his rented house on Aug. 1.
"Tang has no criminal record. His neighbors said they hadn't seen any abnormal behavior from him before left Hangzhou," a spokesman with the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau told Xinhua.
It said Tang was not a petitioner, as people with grievances against the government are commonly called, although a 21-year-old son was once sentenced to prison for theft.
"We are now looking for Tang's ex-wife and elder brother, hoping to find out what he did before the incident in Beijing and figure out his motivation," the police spokesman told Xinhua.
In a brief statement, the U.S. Embassy described the knife assault as "a senseless act of violence" and said the assailant may have picked his victims at random.
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