Sigma Pi stabbed to death near campus

[Jill1228]

I just read this in one of our local newspapers
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Berkeley engineering student fatally stabbed near campus
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 05/03/2008 01:30:18 PM PDT

BERKELEY, Calif.—A 21-year-old engineering student at the University of California, Berkeley was fatally stabbed Saturday as he walked home, the school said.

Christopher Wootton was found at 2:45 p.m. in a sorority parking lot a few blocks from the Berkeley campus, the school said.

Officers had been called to investigate reports that someone had brandished a knife near the Chi Omega sorority when they found him. He died on the way to the hospital, police said.

The school said Wootton was stabbed in "an altercation" on the south side of the campus. Wootton was set to graduate this month and start a graduate program in nuclear engineering program at Cal this fall, the school said.

No arrests have been made, but Berkeley police homicide detectives and campus police are interviewing witnesses and expect to make an arrest soon, police said.

"This futile and senseless killing is a loss felt by us all, including his teachers, friends, and especially his fraternity brothers at Sigma Pi, " said UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, in a statement.