A researcher in the United States who was shot dead at the weekend
in an apparent murder-suicide had been close to a breakthrough in scientific
understanding of the new coronavirus.
The
University of Pittsburgh said Bing Liu, a 37-year-old research assistant
professor at its computational and systems biology department, had been “on the
verge of making very significant findings” into the virus before his death from
multiple gunshot wounds.
According
to local newspaper Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Liu was at his home in
western Pennsylvania at around noon on Saturday when he was shot by Hao Gu, 46,
who then killed himself. The two men were believed to have known each other,
but the exact nature of their local relationship was unclear. Local police did
not comment on a motive.
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