While discussing the death of a 23-year-old woman who was brutally beaten and raped in a Flushing alley, Assemblywoman Grace Meng told NY1, based on witnesses and surveillance video, "At least three people were seen to have watched the beating and the assault and did not scream, did not yell for help, did not do anything. I myself have been really disappointed and angry." One witness did call 911 and police were able to arrest Carlos Salazar Cruz. The victim, Yu Yao, who had immigrated from China two months ago on a student visa, had suffered a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and trauma to the vagina (she was beaten and raped with a pipe) and was taken off life support on Friday.