India, Aug. 10 -- Indian national Varun Batchigari, 20, accused of murdering his 19-year-old girlfriend in Tucson, Arizona, allegedly used her phone to send a series of messages to her mother after the killing, before fleeing the United States and being arrested in Germany, according to police.

Batchigari, 20, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Julissa Rubi Salazar, a US national who was found dead at her apartment near the University of Arizona on August 6.

According to the Tucson Police Department, firefighters responding to a welfare check requested by Salazar's family after they grew suspicious .

The felony warrant said she had strangulation marks and scratches on her neck, "obvious signs of trauma", as per l...