Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Student killed as friend watches via webcam

Quian Liu, a 23-yearold exchange student from Beijing, was attacked in her Toronto apartment on Friday. She was talking to a friend on her laptop webcam when a man knocked on her door and asked to use her phone. The man then attacked her as her friend watched helplessly from Beijing. Police arrived ten hours later and found her dead, naked from the waist down, and her laptop was missing. There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or severe trauma, but police are still investigating.

This story makes me sick. I feel for the friend who had to watch his friend being attacked, without being able to help. I also feel so bad for the girl because she was unexpectedly attacked, so far away from home! She had no one to help her! I really want to know if she knew the man who attacked her, and that guy better get caught!
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5 comments:

Quinn O'Donnell said...

That's disgusting! I also feel for that friend. I'm sure she had no idea what was happening, and it's sad to think of what she had to go through watching this happen. She is probably scarred for the rest of her life from this incident, and she has hardly even lived.

Briana said...

That is horrifying!Even with all our advances in technology it's disheartening to know we can't stop things like this.

Chill Hombre said...

Wow. This is pretty shocking actually. I wonder what I would have done if I was the friend watching on the webcam. I mean, you can't exactly call the American police very quickly from Beijing. At least they have a witness though, even if it is unconventional.

MaryKate said...

This is actually quite disturbing. It freaks me out to know someone did that, and that poor girl had to helplessly watch all the way from Beijing. That is something she will never be able to forget, and she is still so young.

abbywang said...

I was looking at it this morning too. I don't know if the witness saw the murder.

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