The trial process for a alumna Jayna Murray’s alleged killer moved forward Monday with the selection of a jury.
Montgomery County Police arrested Brittany Norwood, 28, for first degree murder in late March, suspecting she struck and stabbed Murray, 30, and left her dead at the back of the Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Md.
Jury selection will continue Monday, The Washington Post reported.
“More than 85 percent of the potential jurors said that they had seen or read media coverage about the case,” according to the report.
Murray, who graduated in 2003 with a degree in international marketing and business, was also a part-time graduate student at Johns Hopkins University at the time of her death.
Norwood originally told police who discovered her and Murray at the back of the athletics shop March 12 that two masked men sexually assaulted them. Detectives later found discrepancies in her accounts.