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Police in Canada have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 23-year-old exchange student who was attacked in her Toronto apartment while a friend in China watched via webcam.
Toronto police arrested Brian Dickson, 29, on Wednesday afternoon and charged him with first degree murder.
Authorities did not say how they tied Dickson to the death of Qian Liu, an exchange student from Beijing.
The suspect is scheduled to make a court appearance Thursday morning.
Police said Liu was talking early Friday morning to a male friend from home when a man allegedly knocked on her door, asking to use her phone.
The online witness said he saw Liu and the unknown man struggle for a time before the attacker turned off her laptop, police said.
Ten hours later, police arrived at the basement apartment to find Liu's dead body, naked from the waist down. Her laptop was missing.
There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or severe physical trauma, and police have said they were awaiting toxicology reports.
This is not the first time a crime has been captured by webcam. In the most notorious incident, Meleanie Hain of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was shot dead in 2009 while talking to a friend via webcam. The friend was looking away when he heard a shot and a scream, police said.
Upon looking back at the screen, the friend saw Hain's husband firing a handgun at where his wife had been, authorities said.
Police later found both Hain and her husband dead in their home.
CNN
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