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Last Updated Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:46:40 EDT

BRAMPTON, ONT. - A 21-year-old male student from China has been charged with first-degree murder in the case of Cecilia Zhang, the nine-year-old girl who disappeared last October from her parents' Toronto home.
Min Chen

Min Chen was arrested Wednesday morning at his home in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, said Peel Regional Police Chief Noel Catney. Min has been in Canada on a student visa from Shanghai since 2001.

He faces a charge of first-degree murder and made a brief court appearance Thursday morning at a Brampton courthouse.

One other person was arrested in relation to the case, but isn't facing any charges.

"Yes there's some satisfaction, there's some elation, but without question that is superceded by our sadness and by our loss," Catney said about the arrest and charge.

Police allege Min entered the Zhang home through a rear window in the kitchen around 3:30 a.m., and removed Cecilia from her bedroom. She was then taken through a side door of the house to an unknown location, said Catney.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/07/22/zhang_development040722.html

 

[Luscious LeftFoot]

She was cute kid.
Damn shame what happened to her....

Was there an explanation given on why he kidnapped her?

 

[darscot]

Apparantly it was botched kidnap and ransom. Guy gambled away all the money Mommy and Daddy sent him for school but never went and racked up mad debt.

 

[neptunes]

yeah, he was actually a friend of the family and was in their house plenty of times before it happened.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

read about it in the newspaper this morning! good news that they got the man!

 

[MrPing1000]

he looks evil

 

[darscot]

he looks evil

He looks surprisingly ordinary to me.

 

[neptunes]

he liked to fish near a river I lived close to.

 

[videogamer]

He looks surprisingly ordinary to me.

it's those eyes.. otherwise I thought he looked kind of good.

 

[FightyF]

I'm really glad that they got him, because living without knowing how or why must be devestating for the parents.

How was the kidnapping botched? It seemed like at the time no one knew who did it...

This guy reminds me of Wuying Ren from Shen Mue 2, looks like him

 

[darscot]

How was the kidnapping botched?

He killed the girl and got no money. I don't even think he got far enough to ask for ransom.

 

[explodet]

I'm happy they caught the alleged murderer (innocent until proven blah blah blah), but I can't help but feel that the guy looks like John Cho (the Harold and Kumar go to White Castle guy).

 

[norinrad21]

Only in Canada

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serials/bernardo/bernmain.htm

 

[neptunes]

Only in Canada

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serials/bernardo/bernmain.htm

what does that have to do with anything?

 

[aoi tsuki]

He killed the girl and got no money. I don't even think he got far enough to ask for ransom.

Happened less than a month ago here. Two teens kidnapped a girl for ransom, but somehow ended up raping and killing her, with the help of a third friend. But one of them went to the cops to ask about a reward for the girl, and knew too much about the crime not to be connected to it. Cops arrested all three shortly after that.

 

[Richiban]

Only in Canada

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serials/bernardo/bernmain.htm

Why bring that up unless it was a poor attempt to knock Canada?

 

[Riskbreaker]

I remember watching her profile on America's Most Wanted and was deeply sadden for her parents. I am glad they caught the fool who did this to her.

 

[Stele]

I thought the Hong Kong celebrity Cecilia Cheung was murdered for a sec, but this kind of news always makes me worldweary.