時事新聞:耶魯學生死因查明 一名技工接受調查

【英文原文】

Yale Victim Was Probably Strangled, Officials Say
Yale University student Annie Le was likely strangled to death, authorities said Wednesday, after a Connecticut medical examiner's office found she died of 'traumatic asphyxiation' through neck compression.

Ms. Le was reported missing Sept. 8, a few days before her wedding was to take place.

Announcement of the cause of death came just hours after a lab employee was detained and then released by police after he gave a body-tissue sample.

Raymond Clark III, identified by police as a 'person of interest,' is listed in Yale's online directory as an animal-lab technician. Police said he worked in the same building Ms. Le did -- the one where detectives found her body Sunday stuffed inside a basement-wall cavity.

Mr. Clark, 24 years old, wasn't arrested, and no charges were filed. He was released at about 3 a.m. Wednesday after complying with a search warrant. His attorney said he is cooperating with authorities.

Ms. Le, a graduate student in the pharmacology department, worked in a Yale lab that conducted experiments on mice.

As a person employed to care for animals in the facility, Mr. Clark would have had access to parts of the building that were restricted to certain employees given magnetic cards coded to unlock specific doors.

Police served two search warrants on Mr. Clark Tuesday night: one to obtain evidence from his apartment in Middletown, Conn., and one for his DNA.

Police say they have ruled out her fiance, a Columbia University graduate student, as a suspect.

【中文譯文】

美國警方週三表示，遇害耶魯研究生Annie Le可能是被人扼死的。此前康涅狄格州某醫療檢查辦公室發現她死於因頸部重壓所引起的“創傷性窒息”。

警方在9月8日接到了Annie Le的失蹤報告，此時距離她舉行婚禮只有幾天時間了。

在死因宣佈前僅僅幾個小時，警方帶走了一位實驗室僱員，並在他同意提供身體組織樣本後將其釋放。

警察將雷蒙德•克拉克(Raymond Clark III)認定爲“引起警方關注的人”。根據耶魯大學網上通信錄的顯示，克拉克是動物研究實驗室的一名技工。警方說他和Annie Le在同一棟大樓工作。週日人們在這裏發現Annie Le的屍體被塞在了地下室 壁的洞中。

現年24歲的克拉克並未遭到逮捕也沒有受到指控。他在遵守了一份搜查令所列要求後，在週三凌晨3點左右獲釋。克拉克的律師說他將和警方合作。

Annie Le是耶魯大學醫學院藥理學的研究生，她在一個專門進行白鼠實驗的實驗室裏工作。

克拉克的工作是照看這裏的實驗動物，他能進入到事發大樓的部分限制區域，只有少數持能開啓特殊房門磁卡的員工才能進入這裏。

警方週二晚間向克拉克出示了兩份搜查令，一份是從他的公寓獲取證物，另一份用於提取他的DNA樣本。

警方表示，正在哥倫比亞大學(Columbia University)攻讀研究生的Annie Le的未婚夫不是此樁兇案的嫌犯。