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Updated: 2:13 PM Nov 20, 2009
Tenn. school says student killed on missionary trip
School officials from a Tennessee university say a 20-year-old student doing missionary work in Micronesia was killed.
Posted: 2:02 PM Nov 20, 2009 |
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- School officials from a Tennessee university say a 20-year-old student doing missionary work in Micronesia was killed.
Southern Adventist University, a Seventh-day Adventist university near Chattanooga, posted a message online about the death of Kirsten Elisabeth Wolcott, who was found dead Wednesday after not returning from a morning jog on the island of Yap.
According to a statement provided to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, police are investigating the death as an apparent murder. No cause of death has been listed.
Wolcott was a junior liberal arts education major originally from Laneview, Va.
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Information from: Chattanooga Times Free Press, http://www.timesfreepress.com
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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