Toronto man charged with murder of student of York u. - Toronto Star

Father of the victim, Liu Jainhui, with his wife on the left left after speaking to the media at Pearson Airport after his arrival Beijing.STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO Star of murder.

Police charged a Toronto murder first degree Wednesday in the death of the student at the University of York 23 - year - old Qian Liu.

Brian Dickson, 29, is to appear in court Thursday in connection with the murder of the Chinese student last weekend.

The news of the arrest came as a plane carrying relatives in mourning of Qian Liu landed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

Liu body was discovered by two friends and his owner at 27 Aldwinckle Heights Friday morning after that that they have been alerted by Meng Xianchao, friend of the victim in China, who said he attended the fight between the woman and an intruder by webcam the previous night.

The victim was found in a bare size basement apartment, police said, adding that there is no obvious signs of trauma.

This week, the Star reported that a man had been "harassment" the victim, which was painted as a rejected suitor online popular online Chinese chat.

However, the police said no there was no evidence that there was no ongoing "criminal harassment".

We learned that the victim lived originally in 46 Haynes Ave., before moving to the location of Aldwinckle in January. Position of friend online said the suspect lived with Liu, but police would not confirm that, or explain why she moved if suddenly when she was only arrived in September.

Forensic police vans were stationed outside the two homes this week.

Police interviewed a person of interest early in the investigation and released.

However, police said they were a check out his alibi.

Police confirm if the man arrested Wednesday is the same person than that they interviewed before.

On Tuesday, police held a press conference to say that they were looking for a missing laptop, webcam, and a cell phone.

The head of the team of homicide, says a new "team approach" to investigate killings that led to the quick arrest.

The new approach of the team, which is used by the Police of Peel highly successfully, means a witness may be questioned five times if necessary.

Homicide team was reorganized two months so he could throw six detectives to a scene two, as was the case before.

This reorganization homicide squad, tingling of the media recent reports that it compensated as 45% of the homicides in 2010, has appeared to work in this case.

"The front-loading of homicide investigators had a key role that led to the rapid arrest which took place in this survey," personal Inspector Mark Saunders said after the arrest.

Police put out a description of the suspect but never said if they had interviewed more than one person corresponding to this profile.

In fact, the police will say the lot, occupied one of the fastest press conferences in memory for the police headquarters Wednesday afternoon.

Homicide Inspector Ed Boyd made a quick statement on the arrest and would not take questions.

Boyd appealed to the media, asking that they refrain from publishing a photo of Dickson.

"You need a photograph of Mr. Dickson, I ask that you publish that the investigation is ongoing and it will compromise our investigation," said. Secondly, I am aware of a photograph of a male circulating on the Internet. It is not Mr. Dickson. This issue is properly before the courts, I would win no other comments. ?

Police is still waiting for the results of Toxicology tests to determine the cause of death.

Police did not reveal if they had recovered an IBM ThinkPad laptop computer missing Liu, its external webcam for live-streaming device or its Nokia Smartphone.

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Father of the dead York student heads for Toronto

This image of a website student at York University shows Qian Liu, aged 23, Beijing. Liu was found dead in his apartment on Friday. (York BBS.com)

The father of the student at York University found dead last week was led Wednesday from Beijing to Toronto, where the police seek to determine what happened to her.

Liu Qian, 23, was found dead Friday in his basement apartment near campus. It was engaged in an online video chat with her boyfriend, who lives in China, 1 h and Friday when there is a strike at its door. She opened her door to a man and a struggle follows.

Later this morning after police were notified by Canadian friends of her boyfriend, Liu body was found in the apartment.

Police said that an autopsy has not shown a cause of death.

Father of the woman spoke to the media in Beijing, before his departure for the Canada.

"It was our only child," said Liu Jianhiu, who is the Director of research of the history of the Communist Party of the Party of the Committee Central of Chinese Communist Party school. The school trains officials of the party.

End women studied at the University of the city of Beijing before arriving at the Canada in September 2010.

"She was interested in media and wanted to study for a Masters degree in it." She has already asked several universities of Toronto and elsewhere, including the University of Windsor, "he says.

"After hearing the news on Qian Liu, our family and friends were all very concerned." But we were praying for the possibility that the victim was a different person of the same name... soon we found that we could reach is no longer my daughter. "And then the Canadian police has very clearly that it was indeed my daughter."

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Student at York u. in webcam attack ID would be

Toronto police have identified the woman they believe died in his apartment in the basement, near York University after having fought with someone who has knocked on his door.

Police found the body of a 23-year old Chinese national, who studied at York, 11 p.m. Friday after an official of the Chinese Consulate called express concern.

Police identified the student as Qian Liu Monday, aged 23, Beijing.

Qian Liu, 23, was found dead in his apartment in the basement near the York University Friday.

Police said Sunday that the young woman had a video chat online at around 1 a.m. Friday with a foreign man who has since spoken with the police.

His mother had called the Chinese Consulate to say that something happened to her daughter and ask officials to check on her at his apartment in the basement located just to the South of the York campus.

Police said the student was found unclothed size, but there is no obvious sign that she was sexually assaulted. The cause of death has not yet determined.

Speaking on CBC News Network, Monday afternoon, constable Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella said that the case remains an investigation into the suspicious death.

"His body was taken to the Office of the coroner for a post-mortem investigation and they must still do more tests... and at that time there, we will have a better understanding when we get results if it is a homicide or nonmais always ranked as a suspicious death""he says.

Vella said that Qian was chatting with a man online, which has witnessed the attack and was able to give police a description of the attacker.

"[The witness online] was chatting with her on Friday to 1 hour in the morning and he heard someone knock on his door and at this point that the Lady stood and answered the door, said Vella.".

"He could hear the man seeking to use his cell phone." Date on which he noticed that there was a struggle between it and the man, and then someone disabled laptop of the victim, "said Vella.

When asked why 10 hours between when the attack was assisted and the arrival of the police, Vella said police was not informed until Friday morning.

"Someone went to [his] address because they feared for his well-being and they went to the apartment and she has found him there and they were concerned, therefore they have contacted the police," said Vella. "We responded Friday to 11 am and this is where we first made aware of the situation,"he says."

"[The witness online] is not Toronto, it is China, and there was a conversation between [the victim] and this man, but he did not notify police, it was someone else and, this is another factor that we seek to."

Zhuo Yue said and Qian used to go clubbing together. He said the person that Qian was chatting with online at the time wherever she was attacked was her boyfriend, although police would not confirm this. Zhuo said he did not know that she was in trouble until he got an email from her boyfriend in Beijing on Friday morning.

"At 8 p.m. I left home for the school," he told CBC News through an interpreter. "I saw not the message sent by her boyfriend until 8: 30 am on the bus." I called my brother immediately to check on her. She did not respond to the door. I called the landlord to open the door. ?

Vella also said that it seems that this was not a random attack.

"It looks like target, but we still consider all the possibilities at this time and it is important to keep the mind open in this case," said.

Although some of the fight is produced out of sight of the camera to the computer, a description of the assailant was provided which could see the witness:

A white man aged between 20 and 30 years.About six feet high and between 175 and 200 pounds with brown hair of medium length, and a muscular disordered at the front and treated at the rear.He wore a blue crew-neck T-shirt.

Police are still looking for a computer of the victim, who took the stage to the other. It is an IBM Thinkpad, model T400.

York University issued a statement Monday afternoon, calling for the death of the woman "terrible tragedy."

"Our whole community mourns the loss of a young promising student," the statement of the President of the York Mamdouh Shoukri. "" Our most sincere condolences and deepest sympathy go to his family, friends and classmates. ""

"The tragic death of a member of the community of York affects us all.". I would ask students, faculty and staff tend to each other at this very difficult time. ?

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