Tenn. school says student killed on missionary

Associated Press - November 20, 2009 1:05 PM ET

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - School officials from a Tennessee university say a 20-year-old student doing missionary work in Micronesia was killed.

Southern Adventist University, a Seventh-day Adventist university near Chattanooga, posted a message online about the death of Kirsten Elisabeth Wolcott, who was found dead Wednesday after not returning from a morning jog on the island of Yap.

According to a statement provided to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, police are investigating the death as an apparent murder. No cause of death has been listed.

Wolcott was a junior liberal arts education major originally from Laneview, Va.

Information from: Chattanooga Times Free Press, http://www.timesfreepress.com