Police confirmed to NBC10 that the Drexel graduate found dead inside her apartment was murdered. NBC10’s Jesse Gary reports Jasmine Wright was possbily beaten and strangled in a bedroom in her West Philadelphia row home.
A young Drexel University graduate found beaten and possibly strangled in her West Philadelphia apartment Thursday afternoon was murdered, homicide detectives said Friday.
A property manager found 27-year-old Jasmine Wright dead in her third-floor apartment on 50th Street near Locust shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. He alerted police, and medics pronounced the young woman dead about 3:30 p.m. Wright's family had contacted the property manager to check on her when they became worried about her.
A key detail in the early investigation into Wright's death emerged as investigators combed her home for evidence: There were no signs of forced entry into her apartment, and the place was not ransacked.
Wright's death left her neighbors in West Philadelphia, who said she was a well-liked young professional, stunned.
"It's hurt me just to know that it's right next door," neighbor Keith Hooks told NBC10. "And to happen to that person who didn't bother a soul."
Detectives held the woman's apartment as a crime scene Friday and towed her car to collect DNA samples and any other evidence.
Investigators do not have a person of interest in the case and the probe is ongoing.
