AMES, Iowa (AP) — A former University of Iowa student from China has been charged in China with killing an Iowa State student whose body was found in her car trunk in Iowa City last fall.
An Iowa City police news release issued Monday night says 23-year-old Xiangnan Li was arrested on June 19 in Wenzhou, China, to face a charge of intentional homicide. Li had returned to China following the slaying of 20-year-old Tong Shao (Tawng Shh-Ow), whose body was found Sept. 26. Authorities say she’d been asphyxiated. Shao was reported missing on Sept. 17 in Ames.
Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness told The Des Moines Register that Iowa authorities want to bring back Li for trial, but the United States and China don’t have an extradition treaty.
Chinese authorities say they will prosecute Li.
