Residents Still Shaken Up Weeks After UCLA Student's Body Found
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Weeks after a UCLA student's body was found, locals remain rattled and confused by the alleged murder.
21-year old Andrea DelVesco's body was found inside her home after firefighters extinguished a house fire on the 10900 block of Roebling Avenue on Sept. 21st.
According to the LA Times, the LAPD witheld information about officers responding to DelVesco's apartment, after 911 calls of a woman screaming surfaced just hours before her apartment went up in flames and her body was discovered.
Police say DelVesco was stabbed to death before her apartment was set on fire.
Court records indicate that DelVesco was arrested in June for multiple drug violations.
On July 8, she pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing the drugs Ecstasy, LSD, methamphetamine and Psilocybin, but was killed before she was scheduled to appear in court next.
Earlier in September, the LAPD arrested two suspects for the murder of DelVesco.
"I think there was a lot of backlash on her for her record, and I think that was really wrong and then for LAPD to come back now and withold information, there are just so many layers from this that keep getting worse and worse," UCLA student Alex Cantrel said.
Students who live near the crime scene say they want answers, but investigators aren't releasing a motive or saying whether drugs were inolved in DelVesco's death.
"They should have done a better investigation and I think that's what their mistake was... Thinking the situation was light and it blows up into something that could have possibly been preventable," Pre-med student Tyler Hill said.
