Man arrested over uni student’s killing
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INVESTIGATORS in the United States have arrested a suspect in the killing of a first-year dance student whose body was found in a creek on the University of Texas campus, police in the state capital said yesterday.
The Austin Police Department said via Twitter that a suspect was in custody in the killing of 18-year-old Haruka Weiser and that more details would be released at a press briefing.
At a news conference on Thursday, university President Greg Fenves said the “unthinkable brutality against Haruka is an attack on our entire family.”
Weiser’s family said she had planned to take on a second, pre-med major soon and to travel to Japan this summer to see family, according to Fenves.
Earlier yesterday, the chief of police said investigators were sure that a man who appears in campus surveillance video pushing a bicycle is responsible for her death.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the campus has extensive video monitoring and that the timing and location of the man and “a lot of things we’d rather not talk about” indicate he killed Weiser on the Austin campus on Sunday night.
It was the first killing on school grounds since a mass shooting nearly 50 years ago.
“We’re very confident, with a high degree of probability of confidence, that this is the person that, when we bring him in, that he’ll be the person responsible for this act,” Acevedo told ABC.
Police have not released details about how she died, although authorities have repeatedly underlined the brutality of her killing. An autopsy showed she was assaulted, but police have refused to elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation.
Weiser, of Portland, Oregon, was last seen about 9:30pm on Sunday leaving the university’s drama building. Her roommates reported her missing shortly before noon on Monday, and her body was discovered on Tuesday in a creek near the football stadium, an area bustling with activity day and night.
Gay played surveillance video of the man he described as a suspect pushing a bicycle north of the stadium about 11pm on Sunday. He added that authorities believe the man was in the area for at least a couple of hours. He said no weapon has been recovered.
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