Texas Police Looking for Leads in College Student's Murder

March 25, 2008

Police in Texas are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the murder of a South Plains College student who was found stabbed to death in his home last week.

On the evening of March 17, the Lubbock Police Department received an emergency 911 call notifying them of an unresponsive male inside an apartment in the 700 block of Indiana Avenue. "I need EMS over at Indiana Village right now," the caller told the 911 operator.

When police and EMS arrived on the scene, they found the lifeless body of 19-year-old Bradford McIver sprawled out on the floor. Investigators observed multiple stab wounds to Bradford's torso, indicating the teen's death was a homicide. There were obvious signs of a struggle inside the apartment, and a possible blood trail found outside suggested the killer might have been injured during the scuffle.

"The violence at the scene, the nature of what we saw there, and some of the evidence that we've collected that we can't comment any further on just yet lead us to believe that this person was injured," Lieutenant Jon Caspell said during a news conference last week...

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