India, May 14 -- A suspect has turned himself in following the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old University of Washington student in Seattle, according to the Seattle Police Department.

Police said 31-year-old Christopher Leahy surrendered to Bellevue authorities at around 10:20 pm Wednesday night. He was later interviewed by Seattle homicide detectives before being booked into the King County Jail for investigation of murder.

The arrest comes days after the deadly stabbing inside the laundry room of the Norheim Court Apartments on May 10. The victim, identified by authorities as a transgender woman and student at the University of Washington, died following the attack.

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