时事资讯:耶鲁学生死因查明 一名技工接受调查

【英文原文】

Yale Victim Was Probably Strangled, Officials Say

Yale University student Annie Le was likely strangled to death, authorities said Wednesday, after a Connecticut medical examiner's office found she died of 'traumatic asphyxiation' through neck compression.

Ms. Le was reported missing Sept. 8, a few days before her wedding was to take place.

Announcement of the cause of death came just hours after a lab employee was detained and then released by police after he gave a body-tissue sample.

Raymond Clark III, identified by police as a 'person of interest,' is listed in Yale's online directory as an animal-lab technician. Police said he worked in the same building Ms. Le did -- the one where detectives found her body Sunday stuffed inside a basement-wall cavity.

Mr. Clark, 24 years old, wasn't arrested, and no charges were filed. He was released at about 3 a.m. Wednesday after complying with a search warrant. His attorney said he is cooperating with authorities.

Ms. Le, a graduate student in the pharmacology department, worked in a Yale lab that conducted experiments on mice.

As a person employed to care for animals in the facility, Mr. Clark would have had access to parts of the building that were restricted to certain employees given magnetic cards coded to unlock specific doors.

Police served two search warrants on Mr. Clark Tuesday night: one to obtain evidence from his apartment in Middletown, Conn., and one for his DNA.

Police say they have ruled out her fiance, a Columbia University graduate student, as a suspect.