A graduate student shooting his professor is not model minority behavior. But given the proliferation of gun violence in America, maybe it is.
Tailei Qi, 34, a graduate student from China attending the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was charged with first degree murder in the killing of his advisor Zijie Yan, an associate professor in applied physical sciences at the school.
Now, people are wondering whether they could have anticipated the events of last week that left the Chapel Hill campus disrupted and shut down for hours, and Yan, a young professor dead. 
Emil Guillermo
“The wounds of this tragedy will not heal quickly,” Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said in a statement. “(Yan) was a beloved colleague, mentor and freind to many on our campus.”
The alleged suspect Qi, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, entered a no plea to the murder charge or to a second charge of possession of a gun on an educational property.
With a translator present, Qi was given a public defender and a Sept. 18 date for a probable cause hearing.
The South China Morning Post cites Chinese news sources from 2010 reporting on Qi as coming from a farming family with limited means in Henan province. Both he and his brother were brilliant students with high scores on national college entrance exams, but they worried about affording tuition at top universities.
