Jaylen Tatum
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Sources tell Action News that a recent Drexel University graduate found dead last week inside her West Philadelphia apartment had not only been strangled and beaten, but also sexually assaulted.
Police say they now have the DNA match for which they have been waiting.
The body of 27-year-old Jasmine Wright was found last Thursday in the rear bedroom of her third floor apartment in the 200 block of South 50th Street.
The murder suspect has been held for days on burglary charges. He is described as a 56-year-old career criminal who had been hired to do maintenance work in her West Philadelphia building.
Police say the suspect, whose name has not yet been released, has a long, violent history, including the murder of his father and the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.
Sources tell us, the suspect had just been evicted from his own apartment, just doors away from where Jasmine Wright had been living.
Wright graduated just four weeks ago from Drexel with a Masters in Environmental and Occupational health. She had a bright future mapped out.
But all that came to an end with the discovery of her body last Thursday afternoon.
"She was beaten very badly. Ultimately she was strangled. That is the cause of death, strangulation, so it would appear it was sort of personal, but we don't know yet," said Captain James Clarke, Philadelphia Police.
Police believe Wright had been dead for 24 hours when her body was discovered by the property manager.
There were no signs of forced entry so they believe she let the killer into her apartment.
Her father, who lives in the Bronx, asked the manager to check on her because he hadn't heard from her.
Wright attended high school in Richmond, Virginia and did her undergraduate work at Penn State before earning her Masters from Drexel.
r.i.p
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