On Friday, January 15, at 5 p.m., a University of Waterloo employee was brutally stabbed in the Engineering 2 building. Yuanhui Fu, who had recently arrived from China, was attacked with a weapon that police described as similar to a steak knife. She was rushed to the K-W Health Centre with wounds in her neck, arms, hands and chest, according to a Daily Bulletin report. Accused of aggravated assault is Lihua Wang, who received her MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering in May, 1996. Fu and Wang are said to have graduated in the same year from the same university in China.
Police believe the incident had domestic overtones.
They were unable to comment on whether or not there had been any threats of violence made by the accused against Fu in the past. Police spokesperson Matt Torigian told Imprint that at approximately 5 p.m., Wang went to E2, where she became engaged in an argument with the victim. Following the argument, Fu was attacked, and Wang remained at the scene. By 6 p.m., three police cars were in the UW parking lot and E2-2354 had been sealed off by the Waterloo Regional Police. Derek Ether was one of several police officers on scene.