Jun 11, 2024

Chinese arrest suspect in stabbing of instructors from Cornell College

Posted Jun 11, 2024 8:33 PM

(Radio Iowa) - Chinese officials say they've arrested a 55-year-old man suspected of stabbing four Cornell College instructors.

Cornell College, based in Mount Vernon, has had a longstanding relationship with a university in northeast China and the four educators were attacked in a public park. One of the survivors, David (DAH-veed) Zabner (ZAB-ner), spoke with Iowa Public Radio from his hospital room in China where he's being treated for a stab wound in his arm.

Zabner says the group was leaving the park when he heard a sound, turned around and thought someone was pushing his colleagues -- then realized he and the others had been stabbed.