SUNY MURDER
A Binghamton University nursing student from Long Island was found murdered in the off-campus home of her ex-boyfriend, who has fled the country, authorities said Monday.
Haley Anderson, 22, of Westbury, LI, was found dead at about 12:53 p.m. Friday at the residence near the SUNY school’s campus.
Her death was deemed suspicious and an autopsy showed it was a homicide. The cause of death was not immediately known.
Cops have described Anderson’s ex, identified as Orlando Tercero, 22, also a nursing student at Binghamton, as a “person of interest.”
“This incident and the circumstances of the death was not a random act or involving the conduct of a stranger,” Binghamton police said.
Tercero, who is a US citizen, left the country on a flight to his native Nicaragua before Anderson’s body was discovered, authorities said.
The body was found on the first-floor of a home on Oak Street, cops and neighbors said. Tercero and two roommates shared the first floor of that home, neighbors told The Post.
“We knew he had some fixation on her for sure,” Anderson’s roommate Mishela Topalli told Time magazine. “Even his friends would say so.”
On Monday, Facebook users took to the comments section of a video Tercero had posted about Nicaragua to blast him as a “murderer.”
“Stunning place to escape from murder, piece of s- -t,” user Alex Weiss commented.
Meanwhile, a funeral service for Anderson was set for Saturday at Donohue Cecere Funeral Directors in Westbury.
In a GoFundMe campaign created to raise money for An- derson’s funeral expenses, she is described as “one of the most amazing people many of us had the pleasure of knowing.”
“Anyone who knew Haley Anderson knew how her energy lit up every room she walked into, whether it was our lives as her friends or the lives of her patients when she volunteered as a nursing student,” the page says.
Anderson, who was a senior, is survived by her mother, father and a younger sister.
She had worked at the university’s Jazzman’s cafe for more than three years, according to FOX 40 in Binghamton. A coworker there, Athena Anadnostakos, described last seeing her on Thursday.
“Everybody’s sad,” Anadnostakos said. “A lot of students came who work together, they cried today.”
Binghamton University mourned the death in a Facebook post Friday night.
“The Binghamton University community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of senior nursing student Haley Anderson, whose death is being investigated by the Binghamton Police Department,” the post read. “There is no threat to public safety at this time.”
The school asked anyone with information on the incident to contact the Binghamton Police Detective Division.