Story highlights Brooklyn man charged with killing jogger in chance encounterDNA evidence links suspect to crime scene and victim, police sayNew York (CNN) The New York Police Department charged a man with second-degree murder in the death last August of a jogger in Queens, Detective Ahmed Nasser said Sunday. A 911 call about a suspicious person made back in May led police to look into Chanel Lewis, 20, of Brooklyn. on Aug. 2 as she was out running alone on a park trail near her Howard Beach home. Police said Lewis and Vetrano did not know each other. DNA evidence links Lewis to the crime scene and to Vetrano, Boyce said.

Source: CNN February 05, 2017 18:14 UTC