Chinese graduate found dead in bathtub in upscale New York apartment block
- Former boyfriend of Ying Huang arrested by police over 22-year-old’s death
- Berkeley College graduate’s body showed severe signs of bruising
A Chinese university graduate has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in an apartment block in an upmarket district of New York last week.
Police sources told local media outlets that Ying Huang, 22, had been found dead in a bathtub in a 54th floor flat in the Chelsea district of Manhattan.
Huang had recently graduated from Berkeley College, a private university based in New York and New Jersey, and her parents were travelling from China to meet police investigators.
Police have arrested and questioned her former boyfriend, but have not charged him with any crime, the New York Post reported on Monday.
“Initially, they arrested him. Then the DA [district attorney] felt they wanted to wait until the autopsy was complete,” a police source was quoted as saying.
Huang was last seen partying with him on Wednesday night before they both went back to her apartment, according to surveillance camera footage from her building.