Sep 22, 2009 5:20 pm US/Eastern
Mom Of Clinton Murder Suspect Led Police To Victim
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Alexander Skowran
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Giselle Rodriguez was found dead in her Clinton apartment Monday morning.
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The Worcester County District Attorney's office says the mother of a murder victim's ex-boyfriend called Clinton police from her Maryland home and asked them to check on the young Clinton woman's well-being, which is how police discovered, Monday morning,
the former Fitchburg State College student had been killed.
After what police describe as a tragic case of domestic violence, the victim's brother says he wishes he had been more a part of her life before she was murdered. "She's really going to be missed. I loved my little sister," says Luis Rodriguez of Marlboro.
Giselle Rodriguez, 23, was found strangled to death in her Clinton apartment yesterday morning.
Monday night, her ex-boyfriend, Alexander Skowran, a 22-year-old Fitchburg State senior from Pasedena, Maryland, apparently shot himself to death at a Comfort Inn in Virginia. Police say they had tried to call Skowran, heard a gunshot and found him dead inside.
Shortly before his death, Skowran was stopped by police in Virginia for speeding. The officers, who did not yet know he was a murder suspect, let him go.
There was an ongoing domestic violence case against Skowran. He was under a stay-away order and on probation after Clinton Police said he admitted breaking into Rodriguez's apartment last March, vandalizing it, pouring bleach on her clothes and taking a box with beads and a birth certificate in it. An officer wrote: "She explained to me through her tears that she had been previously pregnant but had lost the baby."
Relatives say the baby's father was not Skowran.
Rodriguez said she and Skowran had broken up the day before the break-in. "Evidently, he didn't take the break-up very well. It was on-again, off-again. It's another tragic case of domestic violence," says Chief Mark Laverdure.
"He never wanted to meet myself or my mom or none of my family members," says Luis Rodriguez, adding that he knows Skowran's family is suffering as is his and Giselle's while they make funeral arrangements.
The police officer who investigated the break-in at Rodriguez's apartment said "She explained that during their approximately 20 month relationship, Alex exhibited violent behavior on many occasions."
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