MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — The boyfriend of a student found dead in a Pennsylvania university dormitory room was covered in blood and performing CPR when campus police arrived, according to an arrest affidavit.
Gregorio Orrostieta, 19, told officers early Sunday he shoved Millersville University freshman Karlie Hall, 18, causing her to fall to the ground and hit her head on a chair, and then gave her a “back hand” to the face, causing her to become unresponsive, the affidavit said.
Orrostieta was arraigned Monday on an aggravated assault charge and is jailed in lieu of $1.5 million bail. He did not have a lawyer at the hearing. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 19.
Orrostieta, who did not attend Millersville, told police he and Hall had argued at a party Saturday night and made up before returning to the dorm and arguing again, according to the affidavit.
“I knew that the relationship wasn’t that great,” Hall’s friend, Trisha Faust, 19, of Emmaus, said. “It was on again, off again.”
The Lancaster County District Attorney scheduled a press conference with the university’s police chief and administrators for Monday afternoon.
In a note to students, Millersville president John Anderson called Hall’s death “unfathomable.”
