Siyuan Zhao, former architecture student at the University of OR, was taken into custody on December 5 after she stabbed a woman at an art exhibit in Miami.
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Friday night, an art patron was stabbed in the neck and arms following a brief, but minor confrontation with her attacker at the upscale art exhibit.
As she was arrested, officers say Zhao said: “I had to kill her and two more” and “I had to watch her bleed”. Miami Beach Police said Zhao stabbed the woman with an X-Acto knife in the neck and left shoulder “without warning or provocation”. She said the victim is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
“A guy walked up to me and said, “I thought I saw a performance, and I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood”,” Fisher told the Miami Herald.
“People didn’t really know what had happened”, a witness told the Herald.
“The attack was an isolated incident that was immediately secured”, said Art Basel’s Sara Fitzmaurice. “It was calm and everyone was milling around and talking”, he said.
When the Miami Beach police responded, some thought the police tape was part of the show. “Our thoughts are with the victim”.
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Zhao, who was immediately arrested at the scene, has been charged with attempted felony murder.
