Chinese grad student in Chicago killed in shooting

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According to the University of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department (CPD), a 24-year-old graduate Chinese student Shaoxiong Zheng from Chengdu was shot and killed in what seems to have been a robbery on Tuesday afternoon.

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Cobb Gate at The University of Chicago. Image via Wikicommons.

According to the University of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department (CPD), a 24-year-old graduate Chinese student Shaoxiong Zheng from Chengdu was shot and killed in what seems to have been a robbery on Tuesday afternoon.

Zheng, who also goes by Dennis, just graduated with a statistics major this summer.

Chinese social media reactions reflected many different types of worry:

  • Some remembered Fàn Yìrán 范轶然, a 30-year-old University of Chicago Ph.D. student from Beijing, who was killed in January 2021 in a mass shooting.
  • Some questioned the safety problems of studying in the U.S., particularly in Chicago.
  • Some wondered if Zheng was targeted for being Asian.

The Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago posted a notice in Chinese advising Chinese citizens, including students, on how to “strengthen safety precautions.”

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