CASTLETON, Vt. – More than 150 tips have come in since Vermont State Police released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who used to be shot lifeless per week in the past on a game trail in the small faculty the town, government mentioned Thursday.
The composite sketch used to be made public Wednesday afternoon and is in keeping with witnesses’ accounts of a person they noticed at the trail sooner than they got here around the frame of Honoree Fleming, 77, police mentioned. Fleming died of a gunshot wound to the top whilst strolling alongside the trail at the afternoon of Oct. 5, about 1 mile (1.61 kilometers) south of the Vermont State University Castleton Campus.
Detectives were pursuing leads in reaction to the tips, state police mentioned.
The person of interest is described as a 5-foot-10 (1.78-meter) white male in his 20s with brief, pink hair. He used to be dressed in a depressing grey T-shirt and sporting a black backpack and is regarded as armed and threatening, police mentioned.
Witnesses reported that the person used to be performing strange, and more than one person noticed him, Capt. Scott Dunlap, commander of the Vermont State Police primary crime unit, mentioned Wednesday. He additionally mentioned police didn’t know if the capturing used to be random or focused and prompt the general public to stay vigilant.