Suspect in custody in Connection with UT student’s slaying

A suspect is now in custody in connection with the slaying of a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin police said today.

Haruka Weiser, 18, a first-year theater and dance major, was last seen leaving a university drama building Sunday night. Her body was discovered in a campus creek Tuesday.

University President Gregory L. Fenves described the deadly attack as “unthinkable brutality.”

Authorities had released surveillance video of a man considered to be a person of interest. The police pleaded with the public to help identify him.

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told ABC News that Weiser’s death marks the first homicide at the school since the UT Tower massacre in the summer of 1966, in which a man opened fire from the top of the campus tower, killing 16 and wounding many others.