19-Year-Old High School Senior Stabbed to Death in Upstate New York Apartment

Breanne Keane, a 19-year-old senior at Lehman Alternative Community School, was stabbed to death inside her Cayuga Heights apartment on Saturday. m. that day. The call lasted 41 seconds.

Heights police arrested Damian Stewart, 20, at the apartment. He faces a second-degree murder charge and is held in Tompkins County Jail. Matthew Keane told WSYR that his daughter said she was “doing okay” and “hanging out with a friend” during the call.

Keane lived alone in housing arranged by the Learning Web, an Ithaca charity that assists at-risk youth. She planned to attend a canine-training program at SUNY Cobleskill after graduation in June. Matthew Keane said his daughter was still alive when police first contacted him but died while he was en route to the hospital.