FILE – This undated driver license photo released by the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office shows Vanessa Marcotte, of New York, whose body was found Aug. 7, 2016 in the woods about a half-mile from her mother’s home in the town of Princeton, Mass., about 40 miles west of Boston. (Worcester County District Attorney’s Office via AP, File)
PRINCETON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say they now have a DNA profile of the person who killed a New York City woman out running near her mother’s Massachusetts home last summer.
Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said Thursday that the suspect in the killing of Vanessa Marcotte is a Hispanic or Latino man, about 30 years old, with light to medium-toned skin, and an athletic build.
Early said he would have had scratches on his face, neck, hands and arms after the Aug. 7 attack in Princeton.
Authorities previously said the suspect was driving a dark-colored SUV.
The DNA has been passed through national criminal databases without a hit and Early did not have a name.
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