Police Mystified in Murder Witnessed on Webcam

The Daily Beast reports:

A 23-year-old York University student, a Beijing native, was killed in Toronto, while speaking to her friend in China by webcam. The Toronto Sun reports that the friend witnessed the attack and can identify the attacker. The witness says the suspect was white, 6-feet tall, between 20 and 30 years old, weighed 175 to 200 pounds, with medium-length brown hair. The intruder turned off the laptop during the struggle, so the witness did not see the entire attack; the laptop is still missing.

The Toronto Sun has more details:

Qian “Necole” Liu, 23, of Beijing, came to Canada on a student visa last September, Toronto Police say.

And now, seven months later, her family is coming here to bring her body back home.

Homicide detectives are handling the case, which may be the city’s first murder ever witnessed through the Internet.

But for now they are only calling the death “suspicious.”

Investigators are waiting for an autopsy to determine the cause of death before.

Liu was found partially naked around 11 a.m. Friday in her basement apartment at 27 Aldwinckle Hts., northwest of Keele St. and Finch Ave. W., a house just off-campus where she lived along with 10 other students.

She had been dead for hours at that point. Apparently, after her China-based friend witnessed the murder, he tried to contact others for help, but everybody was asleep.

According to The Daily Beast, the student was being stalked by a "suitor she had rejected."