Young man arrested after ‘DNA links him’ to raped and murdered jogger

In fact, Richard said his son, who lived with his mother and siblings in East New York, was previously the victim of crimes.

DNA evidence links Lewis to the crime scene and to Vetrano, Boyce said. “Each one was vetted painstakingly by detectives”, he said.

The sample was rushed to the Medical Examiner’s Office, which at 3 p.m. Saturday tied Lewis to Vetrano’s slaying, according to sources. “Within two days, we had a hit”.

However, Lewis voluntarily gave police a DNA sample when they approached him again last week, thereby “sealing his fate”.

Her father repeatedly tried to call her cell phone while she was out and after two hours grew anxious and called police. He was given several summonses as a result, Boyce said. Lewis was charged with second-degree murder, ABC 7 News reported.

She posted later that she was at a “loss for words”.

He was linked to the cold case when an officer remembered he was caught lurking suspiciously in the area three months before the murder. “The police did an excellent job”, dad Phil Vetrano said. On the day she died, he passed on going for a jog with her because his back was hurting.

When she didn’t come back from the run, though, Phil Vetrano grew anxious. “She did not answer”.

Police were executing a search warrant at Lewis’ home Sunday, Boyce said. Her body was face down with broken teeth, scrapes on her legs and her sports bra and shorts pulled down.

The next day, officials said that there is evidence Vetrano was strangled and possibly sexually assaulted.

Cops “had been working, trying to convince this person to come forward and provide information”, the source added.

The family raised more than $287,000 as of Saturday night.

“My daughter, barely 100 pounds, fought her last moments alive, fighting this evil savage. It’s a life changer”. The website posted a story recently about the Vetrano murder and her family’s request for familial DNA testing to be conducted in the NY case. Vetrano’s parents had asked the state for additional DNA testing on Thursday.