The man who was caught on camera injecting a chemical agent underneath the front door of his neighbor’s apartment was deported to China after pleading not guilty.
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Xuming Li did not appear in court for a scheduled hearing earlier this week due to his deportation despite pleading not guilty to battery and possession of a controlled substance. However, he will face the charges again if he tries to enter the United States, according to a statement from the 13th Judicial Circuit state attorney’s statement as reported by TOO FAB. Li’s lawyer said his client was out on bail when he was deported.
Earlier this year, the chemistry student was arrested after injecting chemicals under his upstairs neighbor’s front door after making a noise complaint. Umar Abdullah said the complaints he received were after the birth of his daughter in August 2022, and most of them ranged from footsteps to drawers closing. Li also complained that he couldn’t sleep because he could hear the toilet seat being moved.
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After the complaints, Abdullah noticed a strange odor entering his home, and his eyes were burning. His daughter would cough and throw up, and he described the smell as being worse than “nail polish” remover. After thoroughly cleaning the air ducts in his home and calling local law enforcement to find the source of the smell, Abdullah installed a hidden camera outside his door.
“On June 27, I found that our neighbor is coming with a syringe, he’s pulling something from a vial and then he’s injecting through our entry door. If we could not have found that incident on the camera, probably after a few days, we might have been just dead,” he explained to Fox.
Li was a chemistry Ph.D. student at the University of South Florida, and investigators said a hazmat test revealed that the liquid chemical agent container methadone and hydrocodone.
