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NTU Stabbing Incident: David tells family of a “KILLER Teacher” before his death

I was reading the interview by Indonesia Thinking on the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore when this interesting piece of information came up:

Since the beginning after they knew of this matter, David’s mother, father, and brother couldn’t believe that David would do this kind of things and hurt others and himself. David was smart, friendly, and kind. But David once told his mother that there was a “killer teacher” (exact term used: “dosen killer” - ed) in the school. It’s not clear what David meant by the term “killer teacher”.

What could David have meant?

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Another suicide case in NTU yesterday

Straits Times have not reported it yet, but 938Live website has reported it.

Updated: 7th March 2009, 1000 hrs
Man found dead in NTU campus apartment
A man has been found dead by his friends in his apartment unit within the Nanyang Technological University campus.

The 25 year old, who’s not a Singaporean, is believed to have committed suicide.

His body was discovered at around 10.30 last night.

An NTU spokesperson said the university’s support systems have swung into action to ensure that those who found the body are not traumatised.

As for his flatmates, NTU has found temporary accommodation for them.

The man worked as a Infocomm Project Officer in the university.

His apartment unit is located at Nanyang Heights, where staff and graduate students reside.

When 938LIVE visited the area shortly after midnight, there were hardly any signs of disturbance.

Investigations are underway.

If confirmed, this would make it NTU’s second alleged suicide case in less than a week.

Last Monday, a 21-year-old Indonesian undergraduate slit his wrists and fell to his death after allegedly stabbing his professor in campus.

From 938Live

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NTU Stabbing: David’s Family claimed David was on the Defensive, not Offensive

From Kompas

JAKARTA, THURSDAY - Family David Hartanto Wijaya, Indonesia, which killed a student in Singapore, the suspect David on the defensive, not offensive, as the lecturer made for this media. Deceased family believes that David is not fond youth violence.

Wijaya Kusuma, uncle David, said that the youth keponakannya obedient. “To do the rough, it’s very much for David,” he said when found in her home in Taman Permata Indah Complex I, Pejagalan, Penjaringan, North Jakarta, Wednesday (4 / 3) afternoon.

Kusuma added, he suspected David defend themselves. May be the very first attack lecturer David. Moreover, the words quoted description Kusuma parents David, have lacerated wound in the arm David.

David family requested the police investigate this case thoroughly and give answers to the wound in the arm. Kusuma also requested the Government of Indonesia play an active role in this case reveals.

In addition, according to Kusuma, David newspaper attack lecturers, Prof Chan Kap Luk, information is a unilateral or version information Campus Nanyang Technological University (NTU). “Until now there is no student who dimintai information to news events (the witness),” he said.

Acay, neighbors David and David do not believe, as made in the media. “I know him. He was a good child,” he said.

David’s house yesterday afternoon in the blank. According to Kusuma, parents and older brother David was in Singapore for the cremation remains David. Appropriate customary, Kusuma said, because David died in a single status, abunya must be in last place, namely in Singapore.

Kusuma who live exactly on the side of the house of David, said parent David planned return on Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon Prof Chan Kap Luk out of the hospital.

Rector of NTU Dr Su Guaning, said Chan had revealed penyesalannya because you can not push up the team achievement of Indonesia in an Olympic event in the Mexican universal mathematics in 2005 that.

As made, Professor David Chan is suspected puncture in the workroom. David then jumps from the fourth floor and died instantly in the parking area. Suspected, David Chan attack because angry because the teacher did not help him. In fact, the scholars David is almost ended. Towards the end of hayatnya, David in the middle of the research studies the end of the task order. (gus)

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NTU Incident: David may be stabbed by Professor

Just saw this on HWZ, indeed shocking!

Posted by winson2222

Saw this link somewhere. An alternate view to this shocking incident. You draw your own conclusion.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking…ry_345743.html

I am one of David Hartanto’s close friend and I am here to give you
some facts, assumptions, possibilities about this case

Facts:

1. Lok Tat Seng: Dean of Student of NTU gathered all Indonesian students in
International Student Center on evening after incident and
he just said there was witness on the spot who saw David’s body lying on the ground,
dead. Dean did not said that witness saw David jumped from balcony.
And that is, according to him, all he has saw.

2. The only official statement from police is: David was found dead at
the crime scene, they did not mention whether he commited suicide.

The link: http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIM…20at%20NTU.pdf

They also just mention ‘The professor was believed to be stabbed’. The police
did not say that ‘the professor was stabbed’. Where this assumption come from? Why
they did not say about it?

3. I and some Indonesian students gather tonight, 3 March 2009, at 8 pm,
at International Student Center and talked to David’s parent.
They have seen his body. There was NO WOUND whatsoever on his wrists
and police also has confirmed it.
I assumed that his parent would not lie it means that all media news about
‘David slashed his wrist’ was FAKE.

4. The wounds found on David’s body, according to his parents,
were on his head (It is assumed due to fall injury),
and slash wound on his neck. The wound on his neck is very suspicious, in
my opinion. How he received that wound?? Again, according to his parent,
police guessed that it may be happened when the bottom part of his head smashed
the ground. In that case, his chin will have broken and it did not.
My question is: WHERE DOES THAT SLASH WOUND ON HIS NECK CAME FROM?

Assumptions:
1. David stabbed professor. How did you know? The crime scene is closed room,
only David and that professor. No one see what has happened.
Eye-witness only saw David run out from that room.

2. David commited suicide. How could someone who commited suicide drop himself
into glassed roof, instead of directly drop himself to ground.

3. David slashed his wrist. I do not know where this news came from…

4. David’s motivation.

4.1. He pissed off since his prof did not give satisfactory grade

The grade has not been released and he even has not submitted the report.
It is also NTu policy not to inform the student about the grade which they got
before release of the result.

4.2. He has mental problem

No record in Student Counselling Centre about his attendance. For bright student
as him, I did not believe that he did not attend counseling if he has some
problems. Also, he still brought bag with usual daily stuff, on incident day,
such as drink bottle, towel, etc. If David planned to kill someone why would
he prepare to bring such things. It is easier for him to just bring one knife
and stab his prof on spot.

4.3. He pissed off because his scholarship has been revoked

I knew David since I was his roommate for 2 consecutive
years during Mathematical Olympiad training camp. He almost did not
qualify for IMO, only managed to get at 14th rank from 15 people selected.
He still joked and laughed to me at that time. He also did not get anything
from IMO and still fine, not seemed depressed whatsoever, and according to his
parents, he said ‘At least, I managed to represent Indonesia at IMO’
He also still play Hammerfall game in Facebook at 2 am on the incident day. My friend
saw his Facebook account online. How come
a murderer played game in the night before incident? If I was him,
I will seriously think how would I prepare myself tomorrow

Possibilities:
1. Professor attacked David. I deduced this thing for several key points.
According to many reports, David’s cloth was soaked on blood. If the blood is
the result from slashing his wrist, it should not soak his cloth since wrist is
far from body. If the wound is from neck, it is easier.

2. David tried to run from Professor. After he realized that he was attacked,
he resisted and run from that room, with wound on his neck.

3. David falled because of unconsciousness. He became panic and probably lose
his common sense because of terrible bleeding, drop himself down into glassed roof
to escape from his Professor.

I am responsible for what I have written here, and contact me at kaminari.no.me@gmail.com
if you need any clarification.

Now that I think of it, if David and Prof Chan were just having a normal talking session when David stab the Prof, the stab wound wouldn’t be at the back. It is a physical impossibility, unless David hug the professor and do a backstab. There must be a struggle (as seen from photos released by Straits Times), and in the process David may be badly injured (Not altogether Prof Chan’s fault, David may have injured himself or Prof Chan may have acted out of self defence), lose alot of blood, run out to the place he was seen before his death thinking the Professor would not be able to go there and then black out or something, leading him to fall to his death. Notice the media uses “falls” instead of “jumps”. Then again, that neck wound maybe is David’s friends see wrongly, because they are just normal people not trained in recognizing wounds, or the wound may be caused by cut he obtain during the fall.

I also think that the fact that Prof Chan’s fingers injuries shows that he did try to grab for the knife from David.

Well it is all assumptions at this point, please take my speculations with a pinch of salt.

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Revealed: Reasons behind the NTU Stabbing

While our local media and police are staying quiet pending investigations, media in Jakarta has already figured out what was the most probably the cause behind the incident.

DetikNews

Translation:

Jakarta - David Hartanto puncture professor pembimbingnya Chan Kap Luk at Nanyang University, Singapore, and then perform the action suicide. Motifnya related issue of alleged breach scholarship. “Miskomunikasi suspected this, because the issues that scholarships terminated. This is be pitied, really be pitied,” said the official protocol Counselors KBRI Singapore Djatmiko time to be contacted via international call, on Monday (2/3/2009). this event, in the environment of the campus according to the Nanyang University campus is the first event that occurred. “They all regrets, this is the last year. April and July tests later pengukuhan graduation, so stay a few more months,” added Djatmiko. According to him, pricking the one person was suspected, because of the scholarship is not the professor he tikam.

“Lecturers-lecturers do not understand why this happened, only that he was actually there in one person. If the professor does not have this problem, he was not determine policy, and not issued a decision that termination of scholarship. Yes words staffs here seems wrong people,” Djatmiko dust. Indeed, this year is a scholarship last year, and David as the upset. “In all, if a scholarship can be terminated while working, no problem. Miskomunikasi Yes suspected this,” close Djatmiko. (ndr / rdf)

It would seem that the suspected trigger for stabbing was because when the lecturer mentioned to David that his scholarship will be terminated that year, David thought that Prof Chan wanted to terminate his scholarship due to poor results. However, this is an misunderstanding as David is in his final year and of course his scholarship will end that year.

It would also be interesting to note that David had definitely plan to stab Prof Chan. I don’t think a kitchen knife is something that is lying on Prof Chan’s table so David must have brought it.

According to Straits Times, this is not the first time David misunderstand things.

DAVID Hartanto Widjaja, 21, was a bright student who came to Singapore four years ago on an Asean scholarship.

His performance was slipping and he was struggling with his final-year project, which was due next month.

They called him a ‘genius’ in maths who had previously represented Indonesia in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

A former president of the NTU Electronic Sports Club, he enjoyed computer gaming, they said, but he was a private person who preferred to indulge in this alone in his hostel room. He had a single-room in Hall Four, and was not known to be social.

Associate Professor Michael Heng, who taught him for one class last semester, said he remembered appointing Widjaja as a representative for his tutorial group, but he misunderstood this and thought he had been put in charge of the entire lecture group.

Prof Heng said the student approached him to say that he could not handle such heavy responsibilities. ‘Although it was a misunderstanding, he stated his case clearly. I thought he was confident.’

Is David actually having problem with verbal English?

David was working on Multiview acquisition from Multi-camera configuration for person adaptive 3D Display under Prof Chan, a very tough project where “multi-cameras will be used to obtain multiviews of a scene. Regeneration of 3D display will be adapted to the viewer position.
Strong Mathematical skills and C/C++ programming is needed. Experience in OpenCV is an added advantage.” Details can be found here.

Update: According to a contact working at NUH, Prof Chan took an Xray this afternoon. All seemed to be well.

Updated @ 4PM: Straits Times finally reveal the reason behind stabbing, quoting the same source as me. This blog post was published at 11.30am. Straits Times states that the termination of scholarship is a “misunderstanding” as David can still work part time to stay on. I don’t quite understand this part yet as I can’t see how this is a misunderstanding..

Updated @ 1AM: Straits times has confirmed that David had his scholarship revoked last month. If anything, this revelation made the incident a mystery again. Why would be stab the Prof for a revoked scholarship, since the Prof definitely could not be the one who revoked it. Also, the scholarship was revoked last month, like that not lag meh?

But who gets the most pity from me in this incident? It is him:


Photo from Straits Times Photo Gallery

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