Saturday, August 9, 2008

1st SCANDAL! - Relative of U.S. Coach Stabbed in Murder-Suicide

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26104003/

BEIJING - A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men’s volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said.

The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site, the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site.

The brutal attack shortly after midday was all the more shocking because of the rarity of violent crime against foreigners in tightly controlled China, which has ramped up security measures even more for the Olympics.

2 comments:

MarketSpark said...

This scandal is no fun. Not a good one to start the games on. Too sad. Let's all send out good karma to the family.

Snez and Chik said...

Agreed. Let's hope we can get back to some good old fashioned doping scandals now.