Student admits killing woman
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 30, 2010, Tuesday
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A COLLEGE student detained for stabbing a woman to death after hitting her with his car in Shaanxi Province has admitted he killed the victim because he saw she was memorizing his number plate.
The 21-year-old driver, Yao Jiaxin, a junior student at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in Xi'an City, faces penalties ranging from a ten-year jail term to the death sentence, a lawyer Zhao Xin told the China Business View.
Yao was driving his Chevrolet to meet his girlfriend when he knocked over the 26-year-old electric bike rider, a mother of a two-year-old boy, on an avenue in Xi'an at 10:40pm on October 20.
The woman, whose name was not revealed by the newspaper, suffered a fractured left leg and some minor head injuries in the accident, according to a police report.
However, when Yao got out of his car and saw she was looking at his car plate and his face in an obvious attempt to remember details of the accident, he stabbed her eight times in the chest, back and left arm with a knife until she lost consciousness.
Yao then returned to his car and sped away - he hit another pedestrian with his car half an hour later and was finally blocked by a crowd of witnesses and caught by police when he tried to escape.
Yao was a scholarship winner who was described by his classmates and tutors as "introverted and hard-working." They also told China Business View that Yao's family was wealthy and he received the car as a gift from his father, who is a businessman.
The victim's husband had not cremated his wife's corpse yet in order to preserve any evidence of the attack.
The 21-year-old driver, Yao Jiaxin, a junior student at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in Xi'an City, faces penalties ranging from a ten-year jail term to the death sentence, a lawyer Zhao Xin told the China Business View.
Yao was driving his Chevrolet to meet his girlfriend when he knocked over the 26-year-old electric bike rider, a mother of a two-year-old boy, on an avenue in Xi'an at 10:40pm on October 20.
The woman, whose name was not revealed by the newspaper, suffered a fractured left leg and some minor head injuries in the accident, according to a police report.
However, when Yao got out of his car and saw she was looking at his car plate and his face in an obvious attempt to remember details of the accident, he stabbed her eight times in the chest, back and left arm with a knife until she lost consciousness.
Yao then returned to his car and sped away - he hit another pedestrian with his car half an hour later and was finally blocked by a crowd of witnesses and caught by police when he tried to escape.
Yao was a scholarship winner who was described by his classmates and tutors as "introverted and hard-working." They also told China Business View that Yao's family was wealthy and he received the car as a gift from his father, who is a businessman.
The victim's husband had not cremated his wife's corpse yet in order to preserve any evidence of the attack.
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