HPD looking for suspect in 17-year-old's murder

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September 7, 2010

By Matthew Jackson Staff Reporter The Huntsville Item Tue Sep 07, 2010, 03:46 PM CDT

HUNTSVILLE — Huntsville police are on the hunt for a suspect after a 17-year-old Huntsville High School student was found dead in her home Monday afternoon.

The body of K'Lynn Sherrie Kohr was found shortly before 3 p.m. in a residence in the 500 block of Nan Way in Tanglewood Mobile Home Park just off south Sam Houston Avenue.

According to Lt. Jim Barnes of the HPD, investigators are treating the death as a homicide, though he would not comment on the manner of Kohr's death or the method of the apparent slaying.

For more details on this developing story, see Wednesday's edition of The Huntsville Item.

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