By Todd Quinones 
 
 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The boots of the victim lying on the sidewalk were a stark reminder of the tragedy that unfolded in Center City. 
 
 An 18-year-old freshman at Temple University fell to her death from an 8th floor window Thursday night. 
 
 The victim has been identified by Temple University as Rebecca Kim. 
 
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 “She may have even been sitting on the ledge, it’s about a two foot wide ledge, possibly taking some pictures,” Philadelphia Chief Inspector Scott Small said. 
 
 It’s believed Kim may have slipped as she was going back inside. 
 
 Kim was visiting two friends at an Art Institute of Philadelphia dorm room when she fell just before 6 p.m. at the 1500 block of Chestnut Street. 
 
 Both of the male students the victim was visiting were questioned by police. 
 
 Kim hit a 44-year-old woman, who was walking on the 16th Street sidewalk. The pedestrian was rushed to Hahnemann University Hospital. She suffered fracture vertebrae in her neck and had some teeth knocked out, but is expected to be okay. 
 
 “The 44-year-old female, she was conscious, she was talking, she was very upset and she was complaining of pain,” Small said. 
 
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 A statement released by Temple University Friday morning read in part: 
 
 “It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of Rebecca Kim, a first-year student in the College of Science and Technology. Ms. Kim died Thursday evening in a fall from a Center City building. Ms. Kim started at Temple last August, was a resident of Johnson Hall and was enrolled in the pre-pharmacy program. She was 18 years old. 
 
 Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends.” 
 
 A grief counselor was at the school Friday. 
 
 Police were obtaining a search warrant to look inside the dorm room. As of right now, there is no evidence to suggest foul play or suicide, but the investigation is ongoing. 
 
 CBS3’s Jan Carabeo contributed to this story. 
 
 Must Read Today’s Top Stories ||||| Rebecca Kim had just started her freshman year at Temple University when she uploaded a video to YouTube as part of a school project describing herself. 
 
 She was a Presbyterian and had just graduated from Wissahickon High School in Ambler, she said. She wanted to attend pharmacy school "for several reasons, like loving chemistry and wanting to work with and serving people." 
 
 "I'm allergic to apples but I eat them anyway," she said. She didn't know how to swim. "I nearly drowned at least three times, once at a beach. Not fun." 
 
 Kim was visiting an eighth-floor apartment in Center City late Thursday afternoon when she climbed onto a ledge to take a picture. 
 
 She slipped and plunged to the sidewalk along 16th Street just south of Chestnut Street. As she fell, she struck a 44-year-old woman walking directly below. 
 
 Kim was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. 
 
 The pedestrian was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition Friday. 
 
 Police said that their investigation was continuing, but that witness accounts appeared to confirm that the fall was accidental. 
 
 Neil D. Theobald, president of Temple, confirmed Friday morning that Kim had started in August in the College of Science and Technology and was enrolled in the pre-pharmacy program. She was a resident of Johnson Hall. 
 
 "Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends," Theobald said in a statement. 
 
 The principal at Wissahickon recalled a bright and active student. 
 
 "She was a nice young woman who had her whole life ahead of her," said Lyn Fields. 
 
 Kim, who lived in North Wales, was an excellent student with a passion for math and science and who took Advanced Placement and honors courses, Fields said. 
 
 She was on the indoor track team and a member of the math and key clubs, as well as the National Honor Society. 
 
 "She just seemed to enjoy so many different things," Fields said. "She always had a smile on her face." 
 
 The apartment where Kim fell is a dorm unit for the Art Institute of Philadelphia. 
 
 Chris Hardman, a spokesman for the company that operates the institute, expressed condolences to Kim's family and friends. 
 
 Hardman outlined window-safety requirements for residents. "Each window in that facility is a double window and has two locks. You would need to disengage both locks and then unlatch one of the windows to open that window," Hardman said. 
 
 The student housing handbook states that students and guests "are prohibited from leaning against and/or climbing out of any windows." 
 
 Violators could risk disciplinary actions, including suspension. 
 
 Students coming and going from the dorm Friday afternoon said they did not know Kim or the people she was visiting. But her death was nonetheless shocking. 
 
 "I don't really want to talk about it," said one man. "I saw when they were picking up her body. . . . It's rough." 
 
 The students said the building is made up of mostly four-person rooms, with multiple units on each floor. Some said their windows are bolted shut but others said they slide open easily. 
 
 "They're supposed to be bolted, unless someone plays with them," said 21-year-old Brianna Haines. 
 
 Others said they did not know if their windows opened; they never had a reason to check. 
 
 The floor Kim fell from is at the top of the stone-facade building and appears from the street to have a slightly wider ledge than the lower levels. 
 
 Bradley Resser, a 29-year-old digital film student who lives on that floor, said the ledge is wide enough "to put some plants on." 
 
 But, he added, "not wide enough to be going out there." 
 
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 Inquirer staff writers Tricia L. Nadolny and Aubrey Whelan contributed to this article, as did Emily Babay of Philly.com. ||||| MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The boyfriend of a college freshman found dead in her dorm room was charged Monday with homicide after an autopsy found she had been severely beaten and strangled, during a struggle in which a prosecutor said she "fought for her life." 
 
 Millersville University students enter Bard Hall on the Millersville University campus in Millersville , Pa., Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Police say a student, Millersville University freshman Karlie Hall,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Bard Hall on the Millersville University campus in Millersville , Pa., is seen on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Police say a student, Millersville University freshman Karlie Hall, died in her room here early... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police officers responding to a 911 call early Sunday from the boyfriend, Gregorio Orrostieta, 19, said they found him trying to administer CPR to Karlie Hall, 18, his own face, hands and jeans smeared with blood, his shirt ripped, his chest scratched and his forehead cut, a police affidavit said. 
 
 Authorities believe the CPR was "completely fake," and that Hall had already been dead for hours when Orrostieta called them to Millersville University, claiming the young woman had suffered a heart attack, said Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman. 
 
 Questioned by police, Orrostieta said he shoved Hall, causing her to fall and hit her head on a chair, and then gave her a "back hand" to the face, the affidavit said. But he made no mention of choking her. 
 
 "He's responsible and we're going to hold him accountable," Stedman told a news conference to announce the homicide charge. He had been charged only with aggravated assault pending the autopsy. 
 
 "She fought for her life," the prosecutor said. 
 
 The dorm's video surveillance confirmed that no one else entered or left the room during the time when a struggle was heard in the dorm room. 
 
 The couple, both from the Philadelphia suburbs, had been dating about 11 months. 
 
 Orrostieta, of Kennett Square, is not a Millersville student. He was being held without bail. The prosecutor said he did not have a lawyer on record, and no one answered the door at his residence Monday afternoon. 
 
 Orrostieta told police that he and Hall, 18, of Chadds Ford, had argued at a party Saturday night and she had hit him, the affidavit said. They made up before returning to the dorm at around 1:30 a.m. and arguing again, the affidavit said. Stedman declined to say if there was a history of abuse. 
 
 Stedman said witnesses reported hearing yelling and the sound of furniture moving between 2 and 2:30 a.m., about the time authorities believe Hall was killed. 
 
 The dorm's resident assistant knocked on the door, but no one answered and no further sound was heard, authorities said. 
 
 Police found Hall unresponsive when they arrived at Bard Hall after getting the 911 call at about 5 a.m., authorities said. 
 
 Asked about the resident assistant not calling police, Stedman said: "They're not criminal investigators. Their responsibility is ... to make sure there's no more disturbances going on." 
 
 "It's something that we'll look at," he said while adding: "I don't want in any way anybody taking out of this press conference today that anybody's responsible for her death other than the defendant who's charged." 
 
 University spokeswoman Janet Kacskos said the RA was awoken by other residents who heard the noise. After knocking and not getting any response, she figured they had "quieted down," Kacskos said. 
 
 In a note to students, Millersville President John Anderson called Hall's death "unfathomable." "We've never had this happen. We're a pretty bucolic, rural campus. Very safe," Kacskos said. 
 
 Hundreds of students attended an outdoor vigil for Hall Monday night at Millersville, an 8,000-student state-owned university. Standing in the rain and holding candles, many of them wept as they sang two hymns and campus minister Dwayne Netzler prayed, the Reading Eagle reported. 
 
 Friends said Hall was a finance major who always appeared happy and often spent her free time going to the gym or feeding ducks at a campus pond. 
 
 "I knew that the relationship wasn't that great," said Hall's friend, Trisha Faust, 19, of Emmaus. "It was on-again, off-again." 
 
 Molly Gaetano, 19, of Pittsburgh, who lived two doors down from Hall on the second floor of the three-story dormitory, said she last spoke to her Friday. 
 
 "She never talked bad about anyone. She was always smiling and cheerful," Gaetano said. 
 
 A memorial with flowers and cards was set up at Hall's dorm room. 
 
 Hall and her twin sister, Kristin, graduated from Unionville High School last June and went to Millersville together, Principal Paula Massanari said. The girls also have an older sister. 
 
 Hall was a member of the school rugby club and gay-straight alliance, and she volunteered at an animal shelter, Massanari said. She was described in a college recommendation letter as a "hard-working" student, who was working a part-time job to help offset the cost of college. 
 
 "This has certainly hit our school community very hard," Massanari said. "We are devastated by the loss." 
 
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 Associated Press writers Sean Carlin and Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
– A visit with two male friends at their Art Institute of Philadelphia dorm ended tragically last night for a Temple University student after she fell to her death from an eighth-floor window, CBS Philly reports. "It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of Rebecca Kim, a first-year student in the College of Science and Technology," reads this morning's statement from Temple University, which also lists Kim as a pre-pharmacy student. Kim, 18, hit a 44-year-old woman walking on the 16th Street sidewalk during her fall; the pedestrian, who was rushed to a local hospital, suffered a fractured spine and ribs (and lost a few teeth, according to CBS) and is said to be in critical but stable condition at a local hospital and expected to recover, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Witnesses told police that Kim had stepped out onto what's been described as a 2-foot-wide window ledge to take pictures and apparently slipped when one of the dorm's residents asked her to come back in a little before 6pm. The resident said he looked out the window after she fell and saw her lying on the sidewalk below. Kim, who suffered severe head trauma, was transported to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Although police don't have anything to suggest the fall was anything other than a terrible accident, they'll be checking out surveillance tapes from nearby businesses and are in the process of getting a search warrant for the dorm room, according to the Post-Gazette.