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2008 Olympics attack on American nationals
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The 2008 Olympics attack on American nationals was a stabbing of two Americans, one of whom died, and an accompanying Chinese tour guide at Beijing's Drum Tower during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Events and victims
Three people were stabbed in Beijing, China on August 9 2008 by 47-year-old Tang Yongming of Hangzhou, while visiting the 13th century Drum Tower in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics. The victims were Todd Bachman, a prominent horticulturalist and CEO of Bachman's (a Minneapolis-based floral and garden company), and his wife Barbara Bachman, from Lakeville, Minnesota, and their Chinese national tour guide. The one fatality in the attack was Todd Bachman. He was the father of American athlete Elisabeth Bachman and the father-in-law of men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon.. Barbara Bachman was severely wounded.
The attacker then leapt to his death from a high balcony on the Drum Tower. It was later reported through investigation that the attacker Tang was distraught over family problems. Police reports that Tang went through his second divorce in 2006 and grew increasingly despondent when his 21-year-old son started getting into trouble. The son was detained in May 2007 on suspicion of fraud, then received a suspended prison sentence in March this year for theft., and Shanghai and Beijing are still safer than most cities of their size.
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