… a student at Utica College – an award-winning hockey player in high school – is charged with having beaten his girlfriend – a College at Brockport student – to death in her dorm room.
This is breaking news. University Diaries will cover the story as it develops.
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Update: The story has quickly jumped to the Associated Press.
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Unverified details suggest some more similarities to the Virginia lacrosse case: The boyfriend is rumored to have been drinking with friends before he went to the woman’s dorm room; the couple is said to have had a stormy relationship with a lot of fighting; there is a suggestion that she may have tired of the relationship and tried to end it.
Unverified details of the attack are also similar. As in the Yeardley Love case, this woman was battered to death.
There are also rumors that the killer knocked out the woman’s roommate by hitting her with an iron.
And like Love’s killer, this suspect has a drunk and disorderly arrest on his record.
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Students are not being held in the dorm, but many have been seen leaving the hall with parents, as well as some with full backpacks and purses.
SUNY Brockport’s newspaper suddenly has a big story on its hands, and so far is doing an excellent job, providing incident-by-incident updates. Its journalists are best-situated to convey a sense of the feel of the campus in the immediate aftermath of a murder. And yes – of course those parents are swarming to take their kids out of that bloody building.
October 1st, 2012 at 7:12AM
This story is only going to get worse. The Brockport paper now identifies the young woman as an 18 year old from the same town as the young man, but 3 years younger. I wonder if this has been going on since high school. The young man went to college only about 5 miles or so from home (New Hartford is a suburb of Utica). The young woman chose a college 3 hours west.
Scary.