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I just read about this story yesterday. It really breaks my heart. I just can't even imagine the pain the father is going through right now. He told her not to go alone for her run. Hopefully the police get enough leads that they can find the person who did this crime.
It's obviously hard to say what exactly happened here, but I think that this should serve as a wake up call for both men/women who chose to run/walk/etc. as a form of exercise outside. Just try to be aware of your surroundings and think about the routes you choose to take when going out and about.
Anyways, RIP to the young lady...
In the link, this also stood out to me...
It's obviously hard to say what exactly happened here, but I think that this should serve as a wake up call for both men/women who chose to run/walk/etc. as a form of exercise outside. Just try to be aware of your surroundings and think about the routes you choose to take when going out and about.
Anyways, RIP to the young lady...
It was part of Karina Vetrano’s routine to leave her home in Howard Beach, Queens, and go for a run along an expanse of undeveloped wetlands on the northern end of Jamaica Bay. She usually ran with her father, a retired firefighter, who had recently injured his back.
On Tuesday evening, Ms. Vetrano, 30, left by herself, the authorities said, even though her father did not want her to go alone.
She exchanged text messages with a friend along the way, but suddenly stopped, the authorities said. Her father repeatedly called her cellphone, but she did not pick up. Almost two hours went by, and she did not return.
“That’s when he got worried,” Robert K. Boyce, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, said of her father, Philip Vetrano.
Mr. Vetrano reached a neighbor who is an official in the Police Department. Officers arrived shortly before 7 p.m. and began searching for her in the marshland just blocks from her home, her father also joining them.
Several hours later, the police and Mr. Vetrano found her body face down. She was about 15 feet from a trail in a marsh, off the intersection of 161st Avenue and 78th Street, the authorities said. Investigators were waiting the results of an autopsy, but there were signs, police officials said, that Ms. Vetrano may have been strangled and sexually assaulted.
In the link, this also stood out to me...
The edges of the park still teemed with joggers, cyclists and dog walkers on Wednesday afternoon. Inside, striped bass fisherman stood in the surf up to their armpits, and on the sandy beaches, volunteers cleaned up debris left behind from religious ceremonies, including dozens of coconuts, chicken carcasses and the head of a goat.