Crime & Justice

Berkeley Engineer Charged With Attempting to Fatally Poison Colleague

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David Xu had allegedly been trying to poison a co-worker to death by putting cadmium in her food and water.

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An engineer in Berkeley, California, has been charged with attempting to fatally poison his colleague over a period of several years, Berkeleyside reports. Prosecutors allege that David Xu, 34, a senior materials engineer at Berkeley Engineering and Research, Inc.,

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