Officer Gave Ride To Runaway Later Charged In UT Slaying
An off-duty Central Texas police officer gave a teenage runaway a ride to Austin about 10 days before a college student was slain and the youth was later charged in the killing.
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An off-duty Central Texas police officer gave a teenage runaway a ride to Austin about 10 days before a college student was slain and the youth was later charged in the killing.
A 17-year-old runaway who's been arrested in the campus killing of a University of Texas student claimed he left home in August because his grandmother's religious beliefs demanded that teenagers his age go "make their own way in the world."
University of Texas President Greg Fenves says the school won't change its pending rules for allowing concealed handguns on campus after a first-year student was killed last week.
The lives of 18-year-old University of Texas student Haruka Weiser and the teenage suspect in her killing differed dramatically.
Police in Austin said that they have arrested a suspect in the first on-campus killing at the University of Texas in five decades. The body of 18-year-old Haruka Weiser was discovered Tuesday in a creek in the heart of campus.
UT President Greg Fenves identified the victim as 18-year-old Haruka Weiser of Portland, Oregon, and said the "unthinkable brutality against Haruka is an attack on our entire family."
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