Toronto police have identified the woman they believe died in his apartment in the basement, near York University after having fought with someone who has knocked on his door.
Police found the body of a 23-year old Chinese national, who studied at York, 11 p.m. Friday after an official of the Chinese Consulate called express concern.
Police identified the student as Qian Liu Monday, aged 23, Beijing.
Qian Liu, 23, was found dead in his apartment in the basement near the York University Friday.Police said Sunday that the young woman had a video chat online at around 1 a.m. Friday with a foreign man who has since spoken with the police.
His mother had called the Chinese Consulate to say that something happened to her daughter and ask officials to check on her at his apartment in the basement located just to the South of the York campus.
Police said the student was found unclothed size, but there is no obvious sign that she was sexually assaulted. The cause of death has not yet determined.
Speaking on CBC News Network, Monday afternoon, constable Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella said that the case remains an investigation into the suspicious death.
"His body was taken to the Office of the coroner for a post-mortem investigation and they must still do more tests... and at that time there, we will have a better understanding when we get results if it is a homicide or nonmais always ranked as a suspicious death""he says.
Vella said that Qian was chatting with a man online, which has witnessed the attack and was able to give police a description of the attacker.
"[The witness online] was chatting with her on Friday to 1 hour in the morning and he heard someone knock on his door and at this point that the Lady stood and answered the door, said Vella.".
"He could hear the man seeking to use his cell phone." Date on which he noticed that there was a struggle between it and the man, and then someone disabled laptop of the victim, "said Vella.
When asked why 10 hours between when the attack was assisted and the arrival of the police, Vella said police was not informed until Friday morning.
"Someone went to [his] address because they feared for his well-being and they went to the apartment and she has found him there and they were concerned, therefore they have contacted the police," said Vella. "We responded Friday to 11 am and this is where we first made aware of the situation,"he says."
"[The witness online] is not Toronto, it is China, and there was a conversation between [the victim] and this man, but he did not notify police, it was someone else and, this is another factor that we seek to."
Zhuo Yue said and Qian used to go clubbing together. He said the person that Qian was chatting with online at the time wherever she was attacked was her boyfriend, although police would not confirm this. Zhuo said he did not know that she was in trouble until he got an email from her boyfriend in Beijing on Friday morning.
"At 8 p.m. I left home for the school," he told CBC News through an interpreter. "I saw not the message sent by her boyfriend until 8: 30 am on the bus." I called my brother immediately to check on her. She did not respond to the door. I called the landlord to open the door. ?
Vella also said that it seems that this was not a random attack.
"It looks like target, but we still consider all the possibilities at this time and it is important to keep the mind open in this case," said.
Although some of the fight is produced out of sight of the camera to the computer, a description of the assailant was provided which could see the witness:
A white man aged between 20 and 30 years.About six feet high and between 175 and 200 pounds with brown hair of medium length, and a muscular disordered at the front and treated at the rear.He wore a blue crew-neck T-shirt.Police are still looking for a computer of the victim, who took the stage to the other. It is an IBM Thinkpad, model T400.
York University issued a statement Monday afternoon, calling for the death of the woman "terrible tragedy."
"Our whole community mourns the loss of a young promising student," the statement of the President of the York Mamdouh Shoukri. "" Our most sincere condolences and deepest sympathy go to his family, friends and classmates. ""
"The tragic death of a member of the community of York affects us all.". I would ask students, faculty and staff tend to each other at this very difficult time. ?
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