Elizabeth Howell performed cello in SUNY Potsdam's Crane Symphony Orchestra.
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SUNY Potsdam pupil Elizabeth “Beth” Howell was struck by three bullets fired from a automotive and ran a brief distance earlier than collapsing, witnesses instructed police of the mysterious homicide.
Howell, 21, was strolling simply off campus when three photographs have been fired through the drive-by capturing round 5:45 p.m. Friday, in keeping with the Potsdam Police Division.
Responding officers discovered the music schooling pupil unresponsive on the aspect of the street on the nook of School Park Highway and East Drive, the assertion mentioned. Authorities administered life-saving measures on the scene, however the Patterson, NY, native was pronounced lifeless at Canton Potsdam Hospital, police mentioned.
Cops later arrested Michael J. Snow, 31, for the homicide, however are asking the general public’s assist in getting info about his grey Honda Civic that was caught on surveillance footage within the space.
It stays unclear if Snow and Howell knew one another, however the college mentioned the alleged shooter had no affiliation with the college “both as a pupil, worker or graduate.”
However a school spokesperson instructed Syracuse.com on Tuesday that Snow’s uncle works on the faculty and his mom is an alumna.
State Division of Environmental Conservation police have been looking for the gun used within the killing alongside the St. Regis River on State Freeway 11B, WWNY-TV reported.
Snow, who was arrested Saturday at his dwelling in Massena, is being held on the St. Lawrence Correctional Facility with out bail.
Police mentioned he drove his Honda in a 90-mile arc Friday night time by means of Potsdam, Hopkinton, Malone, Westville, Hogansburg and Messina from 5 p.m. to eight:30 p.m. Potsdam is about 30 miles from the US border with Canada.
Potsdam police are asking residents within the space to evaluation dwelling or enterprise surveillance footage “for proof of Snow or his automobile within the space within the hour main as much as the capturing.”
Howell, who performed within the college’s Crane Symphony Orchestra, was set to graduate this 12 months. Her dad and mom instructed The Submit in an emotional interview that they believed their daughter was within the “improper place [at the] improper time.”
“She was the kind of person who didn’t have enemies, and definitely nobody that will wish to kill her,” grieving dad Joe Howell mentioned on the household’s dwelling in Putnam County.
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