Jan 26, 2005
WJZ Channel 13 - Baltimore
Baltimore, MD (WJZ) Baltimore's homicide chief said Tuesday that the murder of a Johns Hopkins University senior found asphyxiated in her off-campus apartment appeared to be a crime of "opportunity ... a wrong place, wrong-time type thing."
Linda Trinh, a 21-year-old biomedical engineering major from Silver Spring, was found dead in her apartment, across the street from the university, on Sunday.
Major Richard Fahlteich sought to ease the fears of a campus dealing with the second murder of a Hopkins student in nine months.
He says the crime didn't appear to be a random act of violence.
But he also says Trinh probably wasn't targeted by her killer.
While he said police had "some evidence," he wouldn't discuss specifics.
Fahlteich wouldn't say whether Trinh knew the killer or if there was a forced entry, but he did say there was no evidence that she let the killer into her second-floor apartment.
Fahlteich said it was relatively easy to get in and out of Trinh's building.
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