UPDATE: It turns out this tragedy involved Todd Bachman, the father-in-law of a U.S. Olympic coach, who was killed and his wife, Barbara, suffered life-threatening injuries in the knife attack, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) said. The victims are the parents of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth “Wiz” Bachman McCutcheon, who is married to men’s volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon.
It’s the first day of the Olympics and we already have an American tourist murdered! As it turns out, a relative of an Olympic U.S. men’s volleyball coach was murdered in an attack that left two others injured at the Drum Tower, a popular tourist site in the old city. The 47-year-old assailant promptly threw himself off the Drum Tower’s second story and killed himself, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
There is no telling if the coach in question was head coach Hugh McCutcheon or the assistant coach Ronald Larsen, or any of the other coaches traveling with the team.
There is an AP video after the jump.
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