Pittsburgh homicide detectives are asking for help to find 21-year-old Matthew Darby as they continue to investigate the death of Alina Sheykhet.

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WEBVTT KILLER.KELLY.KELLY: WELL, AT THIS HOUR, MATTHEW DARBY IS NOT IN CUSTODY AND POLICE DO NOT KNOW HIS WHEREABOUTS.WE LEARNED A LOT OF INFORMATION TONIGHT ABOUT THIS CASE.ACCORDING TO POLICE, THEY BELIEVE THAT THE KILLER USED TWOLARGE KITCHEN KNIVES AND A CLAW HAMMER TO KILL ALINA.THEY ALSO BELIEVE THAT THOSE WEAPONS WERE FOUND JUST TWO BLOCKS FROM THE CRIME SCENE.THERE ARE ALSO ALLEGEDLY CELL PHONE LOGS SHOWING THAT DARBY TRYING CALLING HIS EX-GIRLFRIENDFIVE TIMES BETWEEN 4:00 AND 5:00A.M., ALL WHILE TRYING TO ARRANGE A RIDE FROM DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY'S CAMPUS TO HER PLACEIN OAKLAND.>> 20-YEAR-OLD FEMALE HE BELIEVES TO BE UNCONSCIOUS, NOT BREATHING.HE IS EXTREMELY UPSET AND SAYINGHE CAN'T LOOK AT HER.KELLY: THAT WAS ALINA SHEYCHET'S FATHER.HE FOUND HER DEAD IN OAKLAND.ALINA'S SKULL WAS FRACTURED IN TWO PLACES, SEVEN OF HER TEETH WERE KNOCKED OUT, HER NOSE AND JAW WERE BROKEN POLICE BELIEVE HER EX BOYFRIEND, 21-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW DARBY KILLED HER EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AND SINCE THEN THEY HAVE BEEN CANVASSING THIS AREA.LOOKING A CAMERA TO LOOK INSIDE,DETECTIVES FOCUS ON A MANHOLE JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM WHERE ALINA WAS KILLED.WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IF ANYTHING THEY FOUND, BUT HERE IS WHAT POLICE HAVE PIECED TOGETHER FROMTHE MORNING OF THE MURDER.FIRST, DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY POLICE MADE CONTACT WITH DARBY AROUND 3:20 A.M. WHERE HE CLAIMSHE IS MEETING SOMEONE.HE NEVER GETS INTO THE DORM.HE IS ESCORTED TO THE UNIVERSITY'S UNION WHERE HE CHARGES HIS CELL PHONE AND ALLEGEDLY CALLS FOR A CAR SERVICE TO TAKE HIM TO CABLE PLACE IN OAKLAND.THERE ARE 26 CAMERAS OUTSIDE OF LARRY AND CAROL'S PIZZERIA FOR SAFETY REASONS AND THE STORE MANAGER HERE SAYS ONE OF THOSE CAMERAS CAUGHT SOMETHING HELPFULFOR POLICE.>> WE SEE A CAR WITH A MALE GETTING OUT OF THE CAR AND GOINGTOWARDS THE HOUSE.KELLY: POLICE SAY THERE IS MORESURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWING A MANMATCHING DARBY'S DESCRIPTION NEILED DOWN AND DROP A SHINY OBJECT.IT ALSO ALLEGEDLY SHOWS HIM DROPSOMETHING INTO THIS DUMPSTER BEFORE WALKING AWAY.ACCORDING TO POLICE THEY DID SPEAK TO THAT DRIVER WHO APPARENTLY DROVE DARBY FROM DAY CANE UNIVERSITY TO OK LONDON.THE DRIVER SAID DARBY WALKED OUTOF THE CAR AND WALKED TOWARD THEHOUSE AND THREE SEPARATE TIMES ASKED THE DRIVER IF HE COULD WAIT THERE A LITTLE BIT LONGERMENT ON THE THIRD REQUEST,HE APPARENTLY MADE A PHONE CALL TO THE DRIVER AND WHISPERED TO HIM ASKING HIM TO STAY TO WHICH THE DRIVER REFUSED AND DROVE AWAY.DARBY IS WANTED ON ONE COUNT OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE, BURGLARY, ANDTHEFT AND THAT THEFT CHARGE STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT POLICE BELIEVE THAT HE ALINA'S CELL PHONE.

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Criminal homicide charges have officially been filed against the ex-boyfriend of a Pitt student found dead at her off-campus home Sunday morning.Matthew Darby, 21, was taken into custody by police in Myrtle Beach. Officials confirmed his arrest early Wednesday morning.Alina Sheykhet was found on the second floor of the house on Cable Place in Oakland. The medical examiner said she died from sharp/blunt force trauma to the head.According to police, Sheykhet’s parents arrived at her residence to pick her up Sunday, but could not reach her by phone. When they were let in by her roommate and entered the bedroom, they discovered her dead.She was last seen alive at approximately 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the common area of the apartment and was seen entering her room alone, witnesses at the apartment told police.According to the criminal complaint, detectives responding to the scene that morning immediately learned Sheykhet filed a protection from abuse order after Darby broke into her apartment on Sept. 20, police have confirmed. Darby was arrested Sept. 26 on criminal trespass charges. He was released on bond the same day, with the condition he would not have contact with Sheykhet.Call records from Sheykhet's cell phone, which could not be located at the apartment when she was found, show that she received five calls that went unanswered from a phone number later found to be Darby’s between 4:15 a.m. and 4:55 a.m. Sunday, police said.Sheykhet’s cell phone was last located near Irwin where I-76 intersects Route 30. Police said cameras show Darby was seen on Duquesne University’s campus around 3:19 a.m. Sunday. He was attempting to meet with a friend, but when the friend was not available he was taken to the lobby of the Duquesne University Union and was by police seen charging his phone.According to the criminal complaint, he was picked up by a vehicle belonging to a commercial car service at 4:21 a.m.The driver told police he drove Darby to Simple Street and Ward Street in Oakland, near Cable Place. He said Darby got out of the car and asked him to wait ten minutes. Ten minutes later, the driver said Darby asked him to wait ten additional minutes. Approximately five minutes after that, the driver received a call on his phone asking to wait another 10 minutes, but told police said he could not wait longer and left the area.Video surveillance from a nearby business which shows Urey Way, approximately one block from Sheykhet’s apartment, showed a Darby walking toward Simple Street, dropping a shiny object into a sewer grate, placing an object in a dumpster, then walking toward Bates Street.Based on the above, police requested a warrant for Darby's arrest. He is charged with criminal homicide, burglary, flight to avoid apprehension, theft by unlawful taking and possessing instruments of crime.Matthew Darby's parents are urging him to turn himself in after his attorney, David Shrager, said Tuesday his condition or whereabouts are not known."Matthew, son, we have always handled things as a family. Together we can get through anything," Shrager said, reading a statement that he said was written by Darby's parents. "God is still God, and we stand on his word. We are pleading with you to contact your attorney."Detectives are asking for the public's help to find Darby. Anyone with information is asked to call 412-323-7800. He is pictured below.In an unrelated case, Darby was charged in March with rape and sexual assault in Indiana, Pa. Court records show he posted $10,000 bail.