Brendt Christensen ruled guilty of kidnapping, killing visiting Chinese scholar

Wang Zhidong (Front), legal adviser to the family of visiting Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying, heads to a federal court in Peoria, Illinois, the United States, on June 24, 2019. Brendt Christensen, a former University of Illinois doctoral student, was found guilty Monday of kidnapping and murder charges. A 12-member jury at a federal court of Peoria, in the U.S. state of Illinois unanimously ruled that Christensen was guilty of kidnapping and killing Chinese visiting scholar Zhang Yingying in 2017. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)