Northern California chemical engineer arrested on attempted murder charges after he was caught on surveillance footage allegedly spiking a colleague's water bottle with 'toxic amounts of cadmium.'
The Berkeley Engineering And Research facility in Berkeley, Calif., is pictured in a Google Maps Street View image captured in March 2018.A Northern California chemical engineer was arrested on attempted murder charges after he was caught on surveillance footage allegedlyDavid Xu, 32, was arraigned on Tuesday afternoon in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland, California.a female colleague for more than a year, according to an arrest warrant obtained by ABC News.
"That's insane, can't imagine anyone trying to poison anyone," Morgan Davis, Xu's neighbor in the Bay Area town of Lafayette,Yuan told investigators that she noticed a "strange taste and smell from her water and food" that she had left unattended in her office, according to court documents. She became sick last year and grew suspicious when two relatives who drank from her water bottle also fell ill, according to the court documents.
Water samples from the victim's water bottle tested positive for cadmium, which is often found in rechargeable batteries, according to the court documents.
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