David Xu was arrested for allegedly attempting to poison a co-worker. Image: TwitterA woman felt violently ill at work for months and had no idea why, until she watched footage from a work surveillance camera.
You might be keeping a closer eye on your food and drink at work after reading this.
A horrifying story has emerged from a workplace in California after a woman named Rong Yuan felt ill at work for months and had no idea why.
The engineer noticed “a strange taste or smell from her water and food” and continually felt “immediate and significant health problems” after eating or drinking.
It wasn’t until Rong watched footage from a surveillance camera she discovered the reason behind her illness.
A co-worker was had been poisoning her with a toxic metal called cadmium.
Berkeley engineer David Xu arrested for allegedly attempting to poison a co-worker to death by putting cadmium, a toxic metal in her food & water for servers years.
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According to police documents obtained by local news site Berkeleyside, the poisoning was so severe the woman had to be treated in hospital on more than one occasion.
Along with two of her relatives who shared her water bottle.
Police took blood samples from the woman and her relatives and said all three “had elevated levels of cadmium”, which can lead to “organ system toxicity, cancer and/or death”.
Last week, 34-year-old engineer David Xu was arrested and charged with premeditated attempted murder over a five-month period and causing great bodily harm.
The engineer has also been charged with two counts of felony poisoning “which may have caused death and which did cause the infliction of great bodily injury”.
According to reports, the reasoning behind the devious poisoning at the Berkeley Engineering and Research company is unknown.
