Family member of USA volleyball coach killed in Beijing

Reverend_Smitty

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Sat Aug-09-08 10:56 AM
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Family member of USA volleyball coach killed in Beijing

Beijing, China (Sports Network) - The father-in-law of United States Olympic men's indoor volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon was fatally stabbed Saturday by a knife-wielding Chinese attacker in downtown Beijing.

Todd Bachman was killed in the attack and his wife, Barbara, was seriously injured. Their daughter, 2004 U.S. Olympic women's indoor volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon, was with her parents at the time but was not hurt.

The incident took place on the second story of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist site in downtown Beijing. The assailant committed suicide by throwing himself off the tower.

http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/tsnstory.html?id=6434778

What a tragic thing to happen...I'm sure this was not the kind of thing the Chinese government wanted to happen on the first day of the games

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Sat Aug-09-08 11:00 AM
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1. Very sad

link from LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3431074&mesg_id=3431074

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