A US hiker who fell to her death during a savage attack in Germany and a friend who tried to protect her had just graduated together from the University of Illinois with computer degrees.
Authorities haven’t released the names of anyone involved in the June 14 attack because of German privacy rules. But the Reverend Mark Zhang of Living Water Evangelical Church in Naperville, Illinois, said yesterday that Eva Liu, 21, and her parents attended the church and Liu’s parents told him that she had been killed.
“It’s a very tough situation,” Zhang said. “Our words are powerless. We just mourn together with them and pray for them. When one family suffers, our whole church suffers.”
Weihan Chang of Normal, Illinois, said his daughter, Kelsey Chang, 22, survived the attack. She was released from a hospital on Sunday and was on a plane bound for home yesterday. He said he hadn’t had a chance to talk with her very much.