Lu Lingzi PHOTOS, Boston Marathon Bombing Third Victim Identified After Krystle Campbell & Martin Richards
A third victim has been identified in Monday's Boston Marathon twin bombings.
Boston University graduate student Lingzi Lu was named on Wednesday after her parents declined to share with the world that it was their daughter who died in the blast on Tuesday.
Lu was named by The Senyang Evening News, Chinas' state-run newspaper. The editor of the newspaper was told not speak to foreign press.
Lu's father confirmed his daughter's death, the newspaper announced in their social media account. Lu graduated from a Shenyang high school and later from Beijing Institute of Technology and studied international trade.
Lu attended a Shenyang high school and later studied at Beijing Institute of Technology to study international trade. She was also a graduate student of Boston University.
Boston University has confirmed that one of its graduate students were the third victim to die in the horrific Marathon bombings.
The University released a statement saying: The student was one of three friends who watched the race near the finish line. Another of the three students, also a BU grad student, was injured and is in stable condition at Boston Medical Center.
"Robert Hill, dean of Marsh Chapel, visited the injured student Monday evening and again yesterday afternoon. He reports that she underwent surgery on Monday and on Tuesday. "She is doing well," says Hill. "She has her friends around her, and she will soon have family around her." The third BU student was unharmed.
Emotional photos were released on Tuesday of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old victim who died while waiting to greet his father at the Boston Marathon.
The Boston Globe reported that Martin, the youngest victim out of the three who have died from the blasts, was with his mother, Denise Martin and six-year-old sister and had stepped off the sidewalk to greet his father Bill Richard- a local community organizer- as he was approaching the tail end of the race. The first bomb that went off at 2:50pm, occurred near the finish line just across the VIP section where families of the victims from the Sandy Hook School shooting were standing.
Richard's mother, Denise Richard, and his 6-year-old sister were critically injured in the blast. Denise underwent surgery for an injury to her brain and Martin's younger sister lost a leg, according to TV station WHDH. Martin was a third-grader who lived with his family in Dorchester, Boston's largest area. Bill is a respected community leader in the Ashmont section of Dorchester.
29-year-old Krystle M. Campbell from Medford, Mass., was named as the second victim on Tuesday. Campbell attended the race with a friend, TK, 52, to show support to her boyfriend who ran the annual race. Sadly, Campbell was at the finish line, where the first bomb went off at 2:50pm.
Campbell's parents, William Campbell, 56, and his wife, Patty, 54, were devastated to learn that their daughter was pronounced dead- for several hours they believed that she was alive because her friend, Karen Rand, 52 was carrying their daughter's identification on her body. Rand was injured in the blast and rushed to an area hospital, she was mistakenly identified as Krystle.
When nurses let Krystle's parents into the intensive care unit to visit their daughter at 2.am. on Tuesday- Rand underwent surgery for a severed artery in her leg- they were shocked tosee that itw as Rand and not Krystle.
"I said 'that's not my daughter, that's Karen! Where's my daughter?'" Patty said she asked the hospital staff. "The doctors were as shocked as we were." She added.
An hour later a Boston police detective arrived to the hospital and showed Krystle's parents a photo of their daughter who was one of three killed in the terrorist attack.
"I almost passed out on the floor," Patty said.
President Obama addressed the nation during a live televised press conference at 6:10 p.m. on Monday.
"We will find out who did this; we'll find out why they did this," said the president from the White House. "Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice."
