Neighbors said they heard screams from Rasmussen’s apartment the night she died, according to Cruz.
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Through interviews, State and Plymouth Police determined Rasmussen’s neighbor, 24-year-old Tyler Hagmaier, to be the suspect.
Police found Hagmaier’s silver Toyota Prius parked next to the French King Bridge.
Hagmaier is a Montague native, and police believe he may have come back to western MA before taking his own life.
When Vibeke Rasmussen didn’t show up for a class Friday morning, her daughter contacted Plymouth police who conducted a well-being check at her apartment on Tideview Path that afternoon.
Boats searched the water below the bridge Friday and Saturday, but did not find anything. However, none of them called police, Cruz said. Dive teams were not deployed because the bad weather and strong currents made it too unsafe, he said. He works in Quincy and lives in Plymouth. Officers from Erving, Gill and nearby Montague all put out alerts telling people to keep an eye out for any suspicious person in case Hagmaier may not have jumped from the bridge and is still at large.
“She was just this person who wanted other people to succeed and did anything that she could to help them”, Jelstrup told the Globe.
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Police said this was not a random act of violence. Cruz described him as highly risky and warned people not to approach him and to call police if they see him.
