Clues sought in Harding's student fatal stabbing in Texas

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police are seeking clues in the death of a graduate student found fatally stabbed at a park on New Year's Eve.

Nobody has been arrested in the death of 24-year-old Lauren Bump, who attended Harding University in Searcy.

A police report Thursday said Bump's body was discovered on a paved trail by two people walking nearby and the death has been ruled a homicide. Her family lives a few miles from O.P. Schnabel Park, where the woman's body was found Tuesday afternoon.

San Antonio police Chief William McManus has said investigators think Bump was exercising or just walking.

Officials with Harding University say Bump was scheduled to graduate in May from the physician assistant program. She received an undergraduate degree from McMurry University in Abilene.

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