There is evidence that a 30-year-old woman who disappeared during an afternoon jog was strangled and possibly sexually assaulted, police said Wednesday. Karina Vetrano’s body was found in a marshland in Queens hours after she went missing while on a solo run at 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to NYPD Chief Robert Boyce.

Vetrano was discovered in Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, police said, not far from where she lived. The Queens native, who had been jogging earlier on a nearby path along the Belt Parkway, was reported missing by her father, who typically went on the jogs with her but whose back was injured, putting him out of commission for that fateful run.

Boyce said Vetrano’s father became worried when his daughter didn’t return home soon after her jog, so he called his police chief neighbor. Authorities pinged her phone about 9 p.m. Tuesday and it came back as being located in brush near the jogging path, Boyce said.

A candlelight vigil is scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of Vetro at 164-49 Crossbay Blvd. in Howard Beach, organizers said. Vetrano had worked at RV Rooftop at Vetro.