Man Accused In UT Student’s Death Says He Didn’t Kill Her

AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A 20-year-old man on trial in the slaying of a University of Texas at Austin freshman on campus in 2016 has taken the stand and denied killing her.
Defense attorney Ariel Payan on Wednesday asked Meechaiel Criner: “Mick, did you kill Haruka Weiser?” Criner replied: “No, sir.”
Meechaiel Criner
Criner also testified that he’d never seen her.
Weiser, an 18-year-old dance major from Portland, Oregon, was last seen leaving the campus d