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Melvin Rowland, 37, spent the hours before the fatal shooting Monday in victim Lauren McCluskey's dorm building socializing with her friends, university police chief Dale Brophy said.

He later confronted the 21-year-old McCluskey in the parking lot, dragged her into a car and shot her multiple times in the back seat, Brophy said at a news conference.
The killing of McCluskey came weeks after she broke off her month-long relationship with Rowland and filed a complaint with campus police alleging he had demanded money in exchange for not posting compromising pictures of the couple online. She had sent $1,000 to an account in hopes of preserving her reputation, Brophy said.

Police were investigating the case as sexual extortion and knew Rowland was a sex offender but not that he was on parole, Brophy said.

McCluskey reported receiving numerous emails and messages using different names trying to lure her to locations. Investigators now believe they all came from Rowland, who Brophy called a master manipulator.

After shooting McCluskey, Rowland was picked up on campus by a woman he met online. They went to dinner, visited the state Capitol and went to her apartment where Rowland took a shower.

Later that night, after the woman dropped Rowland at a coffee shop, police tracked him to the church where he killed himself.

The woman had called police when she saw photos of the man being sought for the campus shooting.

Rowland got the gun by telling an acquaintance that his girlfriend wanted to learn to shoot.
https://abc13.com/4561156/
 
Jill McCluskey said she and her daughter had been talking on the phone when she heard her yell, "'No, no, no.'" A few minutes later, a woman picked up the phone and said all of Lauren McCluskey's belongings were on the ground.

"I thought she might have been in a car accident," Jill McCluskey said. "That was the last I heard from her."

Lauren McCluskey was majoring in communication and was excited to graduate next spring, said her mother, a professor at Washington State University, adding that her daughter was a Washington state high jump champion in high school and loved to sing.

University President Ruth Watkins said classes were canceled Tuesday and a vigil would be held Wednesday night.

"As a campus community, we share grief over this tragic loss of life," Watkins said in a statement.
https://abc13.com/utah-student-shot-dead-while-on-the-phone-with-her-mother/4540557/
 
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I guess Lauren McCluskey liked playing a bit on the dangerous side.

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Melvin Rowland, a bit old for chasing co-eds and killing over, but he was registered sex offender.

• Description: 76-4-401 – ENTICING A MINOR/2ND DEGREE FELONY
• Date Convicted: 07/19/2004
• Conviction State: Utah
• Release Date: 09/03/2013

• Description: 76-5-404 – FORCIBLE SEXUAL ABUSE-ATTEMPTED/3RD DEGREE FELONY (attempted)
• Date Convicted: 07/19/2004
• Conviction State: Utah
 
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Apparently he tried to extort like 1000 bucks from her under threat he would publicize some photographs that existed of them together, or perhaps just of her.

Apparently campus police and the real police didnt communicate a lot of what went down leading up to it. Cops hadnt yet started investigating the extortion piece because they had more pressing matters, were slated to get to it in like a week.

I guess Lauren McCluskey liked playing a bit on the dangerous side.

How do you figure? The reason she broke up with him is because she discovered what he was(believe their relationship lasted like a month). Apparently the guy is one of those master manipulator types and a great liar, had told her he was far younger than he was and hid essentially every aspect of his real identity. She had no idea he was a convict when she first started messing around with him.

He also went on a date with another woman right after killing this one. Went back to her place, showered up, hit the road again.
 
He spent the hours before the shooting socializing with her friends? So he played nice while laying in wait. That is some cold shit. Thank God he’s dead.

She’s an innocent. I’m sure he sweet talked her initial doubts away but even so she still broke up with him pretty quick. Poor girl definitely didn’t deserve it.
 
Word! Though some might interpret it as a sign he was not planning to kill her at the time.

I think he was planning to kill her. She was on the phone with her mom when it happened, and she instantly went from having a normal conversation to screaming "no, no, no", and then the phone went dead. So no time for an argument between them, or anything else apart from an immediate attack.
 
A Utah cop who showed off explicit photos of a sexploitation victim days before she was murdered has been fired from the force, his police chief has confirmed.

University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey, 21, went to campus cops in October 2018 because she was terrified of twisted ex Melvin Rowland, 37, a sex offender who was blackmailing her and would later kill her.

While he was supposed to be helping her, university police officer Miguel Deras kept explicit photos of McCluskey — bragging to colleagues that he could “look at them whenever he wants,” an investigation concluded, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, the paper which first revealed the scandal.

Deras showed them off to at least three male colleagues — with the other officers saying he was saying “lucky” to work on a case with a “cute girl,” the Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) report stated. Just nine days after she reported the case, McCluskey was shot dead by Rowland — who then killed himself the same day.

Deras’ boss, Logan City police chief Gary Jensen, announced Friday that the shamed cop’s employment had “ended effective immediately.”

The “thorough internal review” proved that “Deras mishandled sensitive evidence pertaining to the Lauren McCluskey extortion and subsequent homicide case,” Jensen said in a statement.

“The conclusions drawn in the DPS report are inconsistent with the high expectations and standards placed upon our officers by the community and our department,” Jensen said.

“Our continuing efforts to hold sacred the public’s trust and our duty to serve and protect has resulted in today’s decision,” Jensen said.

McLuskey’s parents, Jill and Matt, called for an “independent review” into how police and the university failed to “respond to her pleas for help” after her initial report of blackmail.
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https://www.dreamindemon.com/commun...red-lauren-after-she-broke-up-with-him.99146/
 
So goofy Barney Fife (Migel Deras) spent his on-the-clock time exploiting Lauren, rather than nabbing the threatening blackmailer? Who subsequently murdered her? Do I have that right?
And his consequences are that he is fired? Like what happens if you are habitually late, or don't adhere to a dress code?
How about getting charged with dereliction of duty? Not exercising due care? Bad faith conduct? Being a weasley pussy?
Bah!
 
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Miguel Deras the dumbass and dickless wonder with a badge.
Gets axed from his wannabe campus cop job and gets a gig, basically down the road in Logan.
This big earred doorknob isn't fit to polish a badge let alone wear one.

Little twerp is incompetent and disrespectful.
More concerned with filling his spank bank to compensate for sex he will never have and he knows it.
He violated a boatload of guidelines when interacting with the female and didn't follow up on the suspect who was even on the phone to his parole officer at the time.

The only good news is that Melvin the sex offender offed himself too.
 

Scumbag cop fired.


Her family has filed a 2nd lawsuit. Both are expected to move forward.

I hope this college gets hammered HARD! Disgusting the big business of higher education can claim they are incapable of protecting its students, the folks paying tens of thousands of dollars a year, if not a single quarter, to attend.
 
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