An olympic tragedy-

A Chinese man attacked the two Americans — a man and a woman and their Chinese tourist guide — around 12:20 p.m. on the second level of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist attraction in north Beijing.

Citing the Beijing Municipal Government Information Office, the 47-year-old attacker, Tang Yongming, killed the American man and injured both the American woman and the female guide. The attacker was identified by an identity card found on the body.Tang then “killed himself by jumping from the second story of the Drum Tower.

A subsequent USOC statement identified the murder victim as Todd Bachman , father-in-law of U.S. men’s indoor volleyball head coach Hugh McCutcheon and father of McCutcheon’s wife, 2004 U.S. Olympic women’s indoor volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon. Bachman’s wife Barbara is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, and representatives of USOC and the U.S. Embassy are assisting the family at the hospital. Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon was with them at the time of the attack and was not injured.

The attack happened shortly after midday, according to the statement from USOC. Johnson, his wife and numerous baseball players were at the silk fair — a popular tourist destination — all wearing street clothes. Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for USOC, said the victims of the attack were not wearing anything that identified them as Americans or as part of an Olympic delegation.

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