VANCOUVER police revealed yesterday that a killer stalked and murdered Miss Sylvia Leung Sze-hon, the daughter of Hongkong's Immigration chief, with a powerful crossbow.
The bolt penetrated her upper shoulder as she was about to open her car door.
It is estimated the arrow was fired less than 30 metres away from the 22-year-old financial management student, hitting a main artery and causing her to bleed to death in the car park of the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the arrow, which cut through her body, was recovered at the scene of the killing, and they were hopeful that the public could help in locating the weapon and the killer.
''It is a unique murder weapon. A weapon like that is bulky, it's heavy and generally made of plastic.
''It is very difficult to destroy, and it is very difficult to hide,'' RCMP Staff Sergeant Michael Eastham said, displaying a similar weapon to the one which killed Miss Leung.
''To be accurate, one would have to have a lot of practice using this kind of weapon.