Jury picked in case of missing scholar

A jury was selected on Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping and killing visiting Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying.

"Seven men and five women were finally picked as jurors for the trial this morning," Wang Zhidong, a Chicago lawyer who has been helping the Zhang family, told China Daily on Tuesday.

The male suspect, Brendt Christensen, is a 29-year-old physics graduate from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Besides the charge of kidnapping resulting in death, he also faces a capital murder count, as well as two counts of making false statements to the FBI.