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Tuesday 10 OcTOber 2017
Slain Pitt student had restraining order against boyfriend

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Uni- March with rape, sexual as- locked. I pushed the door
versity of Pittsburgh stu- sault and other charges in and I found her laying on
dent found dead in her another county. He posted the floor.”
off-campus home during $10,000 bail that month, He called her “the best per-
the weekend had recent- court records show. son in the world,” and said
ly filed a protection from David Shrager, Darby’s at- she excelled at dancing,
abuse order against her torney in both cases, told singing and gymnastics.
ex-boyfriend, who is facing the Tribune-Review it was Sheykhet was working to-
rape charges in an unre- too soon for him to com- ward becoming a physical
lated case. ment. therapist, her brother told
Police on Monday said they Sheykhet’s father, Yan WPXI-TV.
were looking for 21-year- Sheykhet, told the Post-Ga- Her Facebook page indi-
old Matthew Darby, who zette that he had dropped cates she attended high
has not been charged in off his daughter at her school in a Pittsburgh sub-
Alina Sheykhet’s death. apartment around 11 p.m. urb after moving from Iva-
Sheykhet, 20, was found Saturday. On Sunday, he, novo, Russia.
Sunday morning by her fa- his wife and daughter were The university issued a
ther, who broke down her to do the cancer walk to- statement expressing sad-
door after she failed to an- gether. Her housemates ness and extending “its
swer calls. He was picking thought she still was sleep- deepest sympathies to the
her up to attend a breast This undated photo shows Matthew Darby. Police say Darby ing when he arrived. student’s family and those
is the ex-boyfriend of a University of Pittsburgh student, Alina
cancer awareness walk. Sheykhet, who was found dead on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, in her “She didn’t answer the who knew her.”
Authorities said she died off-campus home. Police are seeking Darby, who hasn’t been phone. She didn’t text Counselors were available
of head trauma, and the charged in Sheykhet’s death but was arrested Sept. 26, 2017, us,” he said. “So we tried Monday for students who
case was ruled a homi- and charged with criminal trespass for breaking into her apart- to open the door. It was needed them.q
cide. ment.
Darby was arrested Sept. (Pittsburgh Bureau of Police via AP) Woman flies into rage, dies in
26 and charged with fel- up the gutter of her home Sheykhet wrote. She de- handcuffs as deputies subdue
ony criminal trespass for and broke in through the scribed him as abusive,
allegedly breaking into second-floor window. controlling and jealous. By KELLY P. KISSEL cops,’ and we’d tell her,
Sheykhet’s apartment. “He did this because I The protection order was Associated Press ‘These are the cops.’”
In her protection filing, she left him and stopped an- granted. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Hannum said deputies
wrote that Darby climbed swering his phone calls,” Darby was charged in Arkansas woman who died spent 30-45 minutes trying
while handcuffed had to talk her out of her car
flown into a rage that last- before she pulled out some
ed an hour before she was type of knife. “That’s when
subdued by a chemical he tased her,” Hannum
agent and a stun gun, ac- said. “That didn’t affect
cording to a woman who her at all, then they got her
watched four deputies with the Mace.”Deputies
work to restrain the woman grabbed the woman by
then try unsuccessfully to her arms after she dropped
keep her alive. the knife outside her car,
Regina Twist, 36, of Hot then handcuffed her, ac-
Springs, died early Sunday cording to Hannum. Once
after attending a Saturday she fell quiet, the deputies
evening barbecue at a realized something was
friend’s house near Spring- wrong and attempted
field, 40 miles northwest of to resuscitate her, Han-
Little Rock. The woman vis- num said.While the show-
ited regularly for weekend down and its aftermath
gatherings and had never were “just horrible,” the
shown similar behavior, deputies “were very pro-
according to the grand- fessional,” Hannum said.
mother of the cookout’s Sheriff Mike Smith would
host, who lives on the same not speculate on whether
property.“Everything was alcohol or some other sub-
fine, then about 3 o’clock stance made the woman
in the morning she got up act irrationally. Twist was
and went into the bath- pronounced dead at a
room,” Nancy Hannum Morrilton hospital and her
said. “When she came body was sent to the state
out, she was like a mad Crime Lab for an autopsy.
woman.”According to State police said Monday
Conway County officials, that toxicology tests can
the woman broke windows take weeks.State records
at the host’s home, prompt- showed that a Regina Twist
ing him to call for deputies. with the same birthdate
Once outside, she began and hometown had been
tearing up the inside of her a registered dental assis-
own car.“She was fighting tant with permission to take
everyone,” Hannum said. X-rays, polish teeth and ad-
“She would say, ‘Call the minister nitrous oxide. q