Beijing attack victim’s name revealed

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BEIJING -- Todd Bachman of Lakeville, Minn., the father of former U.S. Olympic team and UCLA volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman, was the man killed in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant Saturday at a popular tourist attraction here, the U.S. Olympic Committee said in a statement.

Bachman’s wife, Barbara, also was injured in the midday attack at the Drum Tower, about three miles from the Olympic Stadium. The USOC said she suffered life-threatening injuries and was undergoing emergency treatment at a local hospital.

The assailant, according to local law enforcement authorities, committed suicide by jumping from the second story of the site.

Elisabeth Bachman, who played for the U.S. women’s volleyball team at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens and is married to current U.S. men’s coach Hugh McCutcheon, was with her parents at the Drum Tower but was not attacked.

-- Randy Harvey