College student killed by boyfriend who wanted to ‘relieve her suffering’: cops

The alleged killer informed police that he and the 19-year-old entered a suicide pact, and that he had ordered medication through the "darkish internet."
Salt Lake Metropolis Police

A 19-year-old faculty scholar was killed through a deadly drug injection Friday in an Utah lodge by her boyfriend who claimed he killed her to “relieve her from struggling,” in accordance with studies and police.

The sufferer, an unidentified worldwide scholar from China learning on the College of Utah, was discovered lifeless Friday morning by Salt Lake police on the High quality Inn, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Haoyu Wang — the 26-year-old alleged killer who the Salt Lake Metropolis Police Division says is of their custody — is a world scholar from China enrolled on the identical college, in accordance with police and the faculty.

The police division in a press launch described the slay as a “home violence-related murder.” ABC4 recognized Wang because the sufferer’s boyfriend.

The varsity and police are withholding the sufferer’s id till her household is notified.

Citing an announcement of possible trigger, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Wang despatched an e mail to an worker at his college that exposed he had administered the sufferer with medication to “relieve her from struggling.”

ABC4 reported the drug used was heroin.

In line with the possible trigger assertion, Wang informed police that he and the 19-year-old entered a suicide pact, and that he had ordered medication through the “darkish internet,” the Tribune reported.

Wang claimed to Salt Lake Metropolis Police Division Murder Squad detectives that he killed the 19-year-old and afterwards tried to kill himself by injecting himself with the medication, in accordance with the police division’s press launch.

Officers had been dispatched to the lodge after the College of Utah informed police that the person had allegedly threatened the lady, the Tribune reported. Wang had in January been charged with one depend of assault for home violence, in accordance with court docket information seen by the Tribune.

In a letter to college students and school, College of Utah Chief Security Officer Keith Squires and Vice President for Scholar Affairs Lori McDonal addressed the “devastating” dying of a scholar.

“The dying of any younger particular person embarking on grownup life is devastating,” they wrote. “On behalf of the college, we lengthen our heartfelt grief and sympathy to the household, pals and classmates of the sufferer throughout this extremely tough time.”