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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Bail was denied Tuesday for a 26-year-old man accused of following a 19-year-old UIC student into a campus parking garage and killing her during a sexual assault.
Donald Thurman, 26, appeared for a hearing Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and criminal sexual assault in the strangulation death of 19-year-old Ruth George.
Judge Charles Beach II ordered Thurman held without bail, after Cook County prosecutors said he admitted to the attack.
Ruth was found unresponsive early Saturday in the back seat of her family’s car in the parking garage, in the 700 block of West Taylor St. UIC police say Thurman followed her into the garage around 1:30 a.m., and was then seen walking south on Halsted about a half-hour later.
Thurman was arrested early Sunday and later that day confessed to the sexual assault and murder, police said.
"It has been a difficult weekend for our university and the UIC Police Department and I want to send my condolences to Ruth George’s family and friends during this very difficult time,” UIC Police Chief Kevin Booker said in a prepared statement.