Va. Tech decapitator gets life term A former Virginia Tech graduate student was sentenced to life in prison for decapitating a classmate. Haiyang Zhu admitted to attacking fellow Chinese student Xin Yang at a campus cafe in January 2009. The slaying was the first at the Blacksburg school since Korean national student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people in 2007.
P.G. man guilty in teen’s death
A Prince George’s County jury found 18-year-old Demarqus Moore guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Rashad McMillan. Moore faces life in prison without parole. Police said Moore shot McMillan in December 2008, two months after McMillan’s cousin stabbed Moore. Moore hid behind some bushes, jumped out and shot McMillan in the face and then execution-style in the back of the head, police said.
