Xin Yang pleads guilty to first -degree murder in the death of Xin . Xin , 22 , from Beijing , China , had begun her studies at Virginia Tech only two weeks before she was killed at the Au Bon Pain restaurant in the university 's Graduate Life Center on January 21 , school officials said . Xin Yang was attacked with a knife and decapitated at a restaurant in 2007 . They were believed to have known each other , but there was no sign of an argument . Slaying was the first on the Virginia Tech campus since the January shootings .
Xin Yang pleads guilty to first -degree murder in the death of Xin . Xin Yang was attacked with a knife and decapitated at a restaurant in 2007 . They were believed to have known each other , but there was no sign of an argument . Slaying was the first on the Virginia Tech campus since the January shootings .