Ole Miss student Ally Kostial died of 'multiple gunshot wounds,' investigators say
Talia Kaplan 3 hrs ago
A 21-year-old University of Mississippi student who a friend claimed was "harassed" by her alleged killer "for years" died of "multiple gunshot wounds," according to a preliminary autopsy report released Wednesday.
© FoxNews.com 22-year-old Brandon Theesfeld from Fort Worth, Texas made his first court appearance in the shooting death of Ally Kostial, a marketing major in the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration; insight from Jake Thompson, reporter for the Oxford Eagle.
The Lafayette County Sheriff's Department announced the result of the report Wednesday and formally ruled Kostial's death a homicide.
Fellow Ole Miss student Brandon Theesfeld, 22, was arrested Monday and has been charged with Kostial's murder. Authorities said Theesfeld was taken into custody at a gas station in Tennessee. Law enforcement officials told Fox 13 Memphis that Theesfeld was found with clothing that appeared to have blood on it.
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Kostial was found dead late Saturday near a lake in Harmontown, about 30 miles from the Ole Miss campus in Oxford.
On Tuesday a woman who said Kostial was her “best friend” tweeted of Theesfeld: "He harassed her for years, took advantage of her for years, I spent countless nights holding Ally close drying her tears about this monster for years.”