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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now.

Lock in for a big Tuesday Newsday.

That's what we call it around here.

I'm Paige Browning with today's

top stories. It's Tuesday, May 12th. Students at the University of Washington are feeling on edge today.

The suspect in the murder of a UW student is still at large. The victim, who was a 19-year-old transgender woman, was killed at an

off-campus apartment complex Sunday. As Anna Boyko-Wi-Rock reports, there are many

unanswered questions. On campus, first-year nursing student, to Hittna B. Honang, was at the food

trucks. She says her friend group is scared to walk around at night now.

We usually do have plans to go out and get dinner like Thursday nights or whatever the cases,

but now I think we've all collectively decided that we're just not going to leave our dorm

...