The Prosecutor's Office must now notify if it will request the death penalty for the savage murder "deliberate, with premeditation and malice" attributed to this doctoral student of criminology. The judge made a plea on behalf of the defendant of not guilty and scheduled a tentative date for the start of the trial: October 2.

Investigators linked the suspect to the crime scene through cellphone signals, security camera footage, a witness in the home and a knife sheath that would have been used.