Lives of Texas campus victim, suspect violently intersect
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The lives of 18-year-old University of Texas apprentice Haruka Weiser and the boyish doubtable in her killing differed dramatically.Weiser grew up in a tight-knit association in Oregon, breadth she abounding an arts allurement academy and danced with the Portland Ballet.
By contrast, Meechaiel Khalil Criner, the 17-year-old delinquent arrested in her death, was intellectually disabled, alone by his mother as an baby and in Texas advance care, his uncle, Leo Criner, told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Authorities say Weiser and Criner's lives intersected berserk on UT's Austin campus, abrogation Weiser asleep in a brook on academy breadth Tuesday and Criner confined two canicule after in Travis County on a $1 actor bond.
She grew up abreast Beaverton, Oregon, in a four-acre co-housing association accustomed in 1998 about the ethics of community, account and sustainability, breadth association allotment accoutrement like backyard mowers but aswell responsibilities like gardening, said Weiser's neighbor, Helen Spector.
"She consistently had sunshine in her smile wherever she went," Spector told the AP by buzz Saturday while advancing soup for Weiser's afflicted parents and adolescent sister and brother.
Spector said Weiser admired ballet and hip-hop dancing and capital to abstraction medicine, battling her father, a doctor in Oregon.
She abounding Arts and Communications Allurement Academy in Beaverton, and aswell performed with the Beaverton Dance West Troupe, Portland Ballet and Oregon Symphony.
Weiser's parents could not be accomplished for animadversion Saturday but said in a account a day beforehand that they "remain abiding in our admiration to account Haruka's anamnesis through affection and love. Not violence."
Leo Criner said his nephew, Meechaiel, was afraid throughout his adolescence in Texarkana, Texas, and has the brainy accommodation of a 10-year-old.
"I debris to accept he just maliciously dead this adolescent lady," the uncle said in a buzz account from Texarkana, breadth he lives. "This kid don't apperceive annihilation about killing. His apperception don't compute like that."
Mary Wadley said authorities had told her that her grandson, Meechaiel, was bent annexation in McKinney, Texas, anon afore he was accepted into an emergency adolescence abandoned apartment Monday in Austin, about 225 afar away.
McKinney badge backer Sabrina Boston did not acknowledgment letters gluttonous comment.
Wadley, who aswell lives in Texarkana, said she planned to biking to Austin on Monday.
Weiser was endure apparent abrogation the UT campus ball architecture Sunday night. Waller Creek, breadth her physique was begin Tuesday, is forth the avenue she took from her abode to the ball building, badge accept said. The brook is abreast the alumni centermost and football stadium, an breadth that hums with action day and night.
The killing befuddled a campus of about 50,000 students.
Police appear surveillance video that showed a man they said was a doubtable walking a women's bicycle. Firefighters after accustomed the man as Criner, whom they had announced to in affiliation with a debris blaze abreast the UT campus on Monday. An Austin citizen who appear the blaze aswell alleged badge if she saw the surveillance video, Austin Badge Chief Art Acevedo said Friday.
Criner wasn't arrested for the blaze but was instead taken to a Life Works shelter. Badge begin him there Thursday and took him into aegis after incident. His arrest affirmation said his accouterment akin that of the man on the surveillance video and that he was in control of a women's bike, as able-bodied as Weiser's attache bag and some of her added belongings, including her laptop.
The arrest affirmation said Weiser's physique had "obvious trauma." An dissection showed she had been assaulted, but badge accept banned to absolution added data about how she died.
The affirmation aswell said campus surveillance video not fabricated accessible showed the doubtable watching a changeable anticipation to be Weiser as she absolved in the administration of her abode with her arch down, searching at her cellphone.
As she passed, the affirmation said, the doubtable produced "what appeared to be a agleam adamant object" and followed her. The brace alone from appearance as they accomplished the brook bank, though, and the doubtable wasn't apparent on video afresh for two-plus hours.
Police accept said a abomination arena weapon hasn't been recovered, however, and Acevedo wouldn't brainstorm on motive.
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