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.
Police investigate carjacking,
kidnapping in Adams Morgan
A 30-year-old Takoma Park woman was carjacked and kidnapped in Adams Morgan in D.C. early Saturday, police said. Two people approached the woman as she got into her vehicle and told her to drive to a bank and withdraw an undisclosed amount of cash. She was forced to drive to Montgomery County where she was able to escape from her captors around Bel Pre Road and Georgia Avenue and flag down a passing vehicle.
Fire halts trains, traffic
A brush fire in Northeast Washington disrupted traffic and halted freight trains Monday. The fire burned in a small wooded area near Interstate 295 and Minnesota Avenue, north of Benning Road. Fire officials asked CSX trains to temporarily stop running through the area. Fire officials said it was difficult to reach the blaze because of fences, gates and railroad tracks.
Compiled by Scott McCabe
