时事新闻:耶鲁学生死因查明 一名技工接受调查

【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.

【中文译文】

美国警方周三表示，遇害耶鲁研究生Annie Le可能是被人扼死的。此前康涅狄格州某医疗检查办公室发现她死于因颈部重压所引起的“创伤性窒息”。

警方在9月8日接到了Annie Le的失踪报告，此时距离她举行婚礼只有几天时间了。

在死因宣布前仅仅几个小时，警方带走了一位实验室雇员，并在他同意提供身体组织样本后将其释放。

警察将雷蒙德•克拉克(Raymond Clark III)认定为“引起警方关注的人”。根据耶鲁大学网上通信录的显示，克拉克是动物研究实验室的一名技工。警方说他和Annie Le在同一栋大楼工作。周日人们在这里发现Annie Le的尸体被塞在了地下室 壁的洞中。

现年24岁的克拉克并未遭到逮捕也没有受到指控。他在遵守了一份搜查令所列要求后，在周三凌晨3点左右获释。克拉克的律师说他将和警方合作。

Annie Le是耶鲁大学医学院药理学的研究生，她在一个专门进行白鼠实验的实验室里工作。

克拉克的工作是照看这里的实验动物，他能进入到事发大楼的部分限制区域，只有少数持能开启特殊房门磁卡的员工才能进入这里。

警方周二晚间向克拉克出示了两份搜查令，一份是从他的公寓获取证物，另一份用于提取他的DNA样本。

警方表示，正在哥伦比亚大学(Columbia University)攻读研究生的Annie Le的未婚夫不是此桩凶案的嫌犯。