A female Wharton undergraduate was arrested last week and charged with beating a Temple medical student to death in a Delaware apartment.
Irina Malinovskaya, 22, was charged with first-degree murder for killing her ex-boyfriend’s girlfriend, Irina Zlotnikov, 24, with a blunt object, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Zlotnikov was a resident of Philadelphia, and a Russian citizen whose boyfriend lived in New Castle County in Delaware, where she was found beaten to death around noon on December 23.
Police tied Malinovskaya, a Russian citizen, to the crime through a car she had rented in Philadelphia, the Inquirer said.
Malinovskaya lists a Center City address in the University directory. She studied Finance and Management at Wharton. She will have a preliminary hearing in Delaware in the next 10 days, according to the Inquirer.
According to information listed on thefacebook.com, Malinovskaya lived on the 14th floor of Hamilton College House last year. She is listed as the 2004-05 contact person for the Russian Cultural Association on the University Web site.
As of yesterday, Malinovskaya was being held at the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution in New Castle, Delaware, about 30 miles from Philadelphia.
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