XENIA, Ohio, March 15 (UPI) -- A suspect who fled to Canada Monday faced trial for a 1997 attack against his ex-girlfriend at Wright State University in Ohio, prosecutors said.
Chi Quang Du, 39, is charged with two counts of attempted aggravated murder for the stabbings of Thuy Mai and her friend, Eric Borton, in front of the college library.
Du, who was being held on $55 million bond, faces as long as 20 years in prison if convicted in Greene County Common Pleas Court.
Du fled to Canada in 1997 and was arrested in 2008 after police tracked him to a Toronto suburb where he was working under an assumed name as a cellphone manager, the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News reported Monday.
When arrested, Du was wearing a necklace with an engagement ring he said he had once given Mai, the News reported.
Prosecutors planned to call more than 40 witnesses including Mai, who still bears scars from the attack, authorities said.
