Deadly assault assisted on Webcam

Police hope that a stolen laptop computer and webcam could provide clues as to who killed a student in his apartment in Toronto as her boyfriend helplessly watched on the internet from 11 000 kilometres in China.

The Toronto Police said Qian Liu, a Chinese of 23-year-old national study English at the University of York, was killed Friday morning when she let a man not identified in his room while chatting online with her boyfriend in Beijing.

The boyfriend said police there was a knock on the door of Liu around 1 pm and Friday and a man asked to borrow his cellular phone.

The boyfriend witness "a struggle between the deceased and the man", according to the police, until the suspect shut down his computer and stole the laptop. Also stolen were webcam that it used to chat with her boyfriend and his cell phone.

The boyfriend, who police have not been publicly identified, immediately took to the internet to raise awareness that he knew to the Canada which could warn the police. He contacted the family of Liu in Beijing that calls the Chinese Consulate in Toronto. But it was almost 10 hours after the intruder has knocked on the door that the police finally entered Liu apartment and found the death of the wife.

Liu was found naked in size, but there was no sign of sexual assault, according to police.

Police interviewed the boyfriend on the phone, which describes the intruder as a white male, 20 to 30 years old, 175 to 200 pounds, with "medium length brown hair, disordered at the front and treated at the rear.".

Police do not yet have the man at the door to identify or determine if Liu knew.

Deadly assault assisted on Webcam

"I will not question whether if she knew him,", said detective Frank Skubic. "It has opened the door to him." "That is said, there was no Judas to assess who was on the other side".

Police said that the boyfriend, or a third party registered their cat. However, they hope that they might be able to find "remnant" images from the time the intruder entered the House if they locate a laptop of Liu, a Thinkpad T400 or webcam, or are able to access the boyfriend computer.

SKUBIC said police had been in contact with several people, including a "person of interest", which was seen in photos with Liu circulating on the internet.

SKUBIC has no "" to confirm this time ", said that the person of interest is the intruder, but said police had been queries since Friday evening."

It would not confirm if it corresponded to the physical description of the intruder.