An international manhunt was underway on Sunday for a person of interest in the killing of a 22-year-old a nursing student, who was found dead in her Binghamton, New York, home by police conducting a welfare check, authorities said.
Police found her body while responding to a request for a welfare check. It is unclear how long she had been dead.
The body of Haley Anderson was discovered on Friday near the campus of State University of New York, Binghamton, where she was a registered nursing student, police said. Following an autopsy on Saturday, Anderson's death was ruled a homicide.
This incident and the circumstances of the death was not a random act or involving the conduct of a stranger," the Binghamton Police Department said in a statement.
Police said they are searching for Anderson's former boyfriend, also a nursing student at SUNY Binghamton, as a person of interest in the homicide. Investigators suspect the boyfriend, whom they did not immediately identify, has fled the country. Authorities declined to name the former boyfriend, or identify what country he went to.
The university’s Facebook page expressed sorrow at the loss of the promising student. “The Binghamton University community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of senior nursing student Haley Anderson, whose death is being investigated by the Binghamton Police Department,” the statement reads. “Our entire University community extends our deepest condolences to Haley’s family and friends, both here in Binghamton and in her hometown of Westbury, N.Y.”
