http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ut-student-stabbed-in-the-nose-with-fork
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A University of Texas student is recovering after her estranged boyfriend traveled from China, tracked her down, and stabbed her in the nose with a fork inside a campus building, police said.
22-year-old Changxi Deng remains jailed, charged with aggravated assault.
The attack happened just before 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Engineering-Science Building.
When UT police officers got there, four witnesses were holding down a man who they said attacked the student.
She was taken to St. David's Medical Center with several cuts and bruises to her face.
"She did receive possibly a broken nose and did receive several puncture wounds from the fork to her face," said UTPD Sergeant Charles Bonnet.
Police arrested Dengwas not a student at the university.
Deng told officers, through a translator, he came to Austin to find the woman whom he had a relationship with in China, the arrest affidavit said. He said the two studied the same subject at a university in China before she began taking classes at UT.
"They had studied similar classes for undergrad studies and so he had a good idea of what classes she was going to be taking," said Sergeant Bonnet.
Wanting to see her, Deng said he "audited" some classes that were similar to the ones he knew the woman would be taking and "happened to run into" her at the Engineering-Science Building, the document said.
But campus police and the Engineering department says there is no paperwork of Deng's audit. That would have to be signed by the professor and department head.
Deng said his conversation with the girl turned into an argument and the woman punched him in the face, according to the affidavit. Police said Deng then pushed the woman before stabbing her with the fork.
Freshman Joe Thometz told police he could hear the woman yelling and ran to her aid, holding down Deng till officers arrived.
"I shoved him into a wall to separate them and another guy ran to help her," Thometz said. "He was screaming that he loved her and she had used him."
The woman told police she knew Deng was in the U.S. on Monday after a friend told her Deng was asking for her phone number. On Wednesday, she saw Deng in her class and said he followed her out after she left, the affidavit said.
After warning Deng she would call the police, she said he hit her in the face. Doctors told police the scratches and bruises were from a metal object and four puncture wounds were discovered on the side of her nose.
Currently anyone can have access into most buildings on the UT campus, but some students say that should be changed after the stalking incident that happened.
"Like maybe at night in order to get into the building you have to swipe your UT I.D. so we know that you are a student or faculty so it's not just random people walking into class," said Cindy Song.
UTPD says when it comes to stalking they inform students with safety awareness tips, but changes to building access is a move that would have to be made by the University's board of regents.
Deng's bond was set at $50,000 and he was ordered to not have any contact with the woman and stay at least 200 yards away from her.
there must have been a reason. 7000 miles? Nah, he ain't crazy. She must've pissed that nikka off. Nobody traveling that distance on some random impulse shyt.
He traveled that far just to stab her in the nose?? What a waste of a trip!
