Police Searched Home of Victim's Boyfriend
Washington Post reporters have learned that police searched the home of a college student identified as the boyfriend of the young woman killed by mass murderer Cho Seung Hui.
In an affidavit, police revealed that they looked in the home of Karl David Thornhill for "firearms, ammunition, bloody clothing" and other possible evidence.
Thornhill hasn't been officially identified as the "person of interest" that officials have referred to. But his friends say he was the boyfriend of slaying victim Emily Hilscher, and that he dropped her off at her Virginia Tech dormitory moments before Cho arrived there.
With few clues to go on immediately after the slaying in the dorm, police went looking for a boyfriend, an approach that one source said would have been right "90 percent" of the time. A family friend of Thornhill says police caught up with him on a road, ordered him out of the car and handcuffed him.
By Liz Heron |
April 17, 2007; 9:47 PM ET
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Sometimes cops act unfairly and dangerously when they arrest someone based on a presumption of guilt. Why can't the cops treat people with respect by firstly asking them to answer questions so that their role, if any, can be assessed. In many other countries the cops do not handcuff people before questioning them.
Posted by: springflat | April 18, 2007 02:03 PM
Seriously. "Get out of the car! Hands behind your back! Shut up! Oh, and your girlfriend's been murdered. Have a nice day." Way to make a bad situation worse.
Posted by: ajschaefer | April 18, 2007 05:23 PM
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