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Ex-boyfriend killed former Pullman High track star, police say
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Ex-boyfriend killed former Pullman High track star, police say
UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 23, 2018, 12:28 p.m
From staff and wire reports
SALT LAKE CITY – An ex-Pullman High track star was shot and killed on University of Utah campus by an ex-boyfriend, who was found dead hours later inside a church Tuesday, authorities said.
Lauren McCluskey, a University of Utah student and track and field athlete, was shot outside a dormitory just before 10 p.m. and police said she had had a relationship with the shooter, identified as Melvin Rowland. According to a statement from the victim’s mother, Jill McCluskey, Lauren broke up with Rowland on October 9, when she learned of his criminal history from a friend.
Police followed Rowland, 37, into an off-campus church after he was spotted at about at about 1 a.m., University of Utah Police Lt. Brian Wahlin said. ... Wahlin said Rowland’s body was found inside the church. Police didn’t provide circumstances of Rowland’s death. ... The University of Utah also tweeted that Rowland had been located and was “no longer a threat.”
McCluskey’s parents, Matt and Jill McCluskey, are both WSU faculty members. Jill had been talking to Lauren on the phone while Lauren was making her way back to her university apartment from her night class. ... “Suddenly, I heard her yell, ‘No, no, no!’” Jill wrote in her statement. “I thought she might have been in a car accident. That was the last I heard from her.”
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Ex-boyfriend killed former Pullman High track star, police say
UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 23, 2018, 12:28 p.m
From staff and wire reports
SALT LAKE CITY – An ex-Pullman High track star was shot and killed on University of Utah campus by an ex-boyfriend, who was found dead hours later inside a church Tuesday, authorities said.
Lauren McCluskey, a University of Utah student and track and field athlete, was shot outside a dormitory just before 10 p.m. and police said she had had a relationship with the shooter, identified as Melvin Rowland. According to a statement from the victim’s mother, Jill McCluskey, Lauren broke up with Rowland on October 9, when she learned of his criminal history from a friend.
Police followed Rowland, 37, into an off-campus church after he was spotted at about at about 1 a.m., University of Utah Police Lt. Brian Wahlin said. ... Wahlin said Rowland’s body was found inside the church. Police didn’t provide circumstances of Rowland’s death. ... The University of Utah also tweeted that Rowland had been located and was “no longer a threat.”
McCluskey’s parents, Matt and Jill McCluskey, are both WSU faculty members. Jill had been talking to Lauren on the phone while Lauren was making her way back to her university apartment from her night class. ... “Suddenly, I heard her yell, ‘No, no, no!’” Jill wrote in her statement. “I thought she might have been in a car accident. That was the last I heard from her.”
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