NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of a man in the strangling death of a New York City woman out jogging (all times local): 
 
 3:45 p.m. 
 
 A man arrested in the strangulation death of a New York City woman out on a run last summer is facing a murder charge. 
 
 Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 20 year-old Chanel Lewis, of Brooklyn, was expected to be arraigned later Sunday. The charge carries a penalty of 25 years to life in prison if he's convicted. No information on an attorney for him was available. 
 
 Karina Vetrano had gone running near her Queens home on Aug. 2 when she was attacked and strangled. Her father found the 30-year-old's badly beaten body in a secluded marsh. 
 
 Police arrested Lewis on Saturday and said DNA evidence led investigators to him. The DNA profile of the attacker came from genetic material found under Vetrano's fingernails and on her phone and neck. 
 
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 12:23 p.m. 
 
 Police have arrested a man in the strangulation of a New York City woman who had gone out for a run last summer and was found dead in a secluded marsh. 
 
 Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says 20-year-old Chanel Lewis, of Brooklyn, made "incriminating statements" when he was arrested Saturday night. Formal charges were pending Sunday. It wasn't immediately clear if Lewis has an attorney. 
 
 Karina Vetrano was killed Aug. 2 after going for a run not far from her Queens home. Her father later discovered her badly beaten body. 
 
 Boyce says the encounter that led to 30-year-old Vetrano's death apparently was a chance one. 
 
 He says DNA evidence led to the arrest. Genetic material found under Vetrano's fingernails and on her phone and neck resulted in a DNA profile. ||||| Police are expected to release as early as Thursday a sketch of a man seen leaving Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach, Queens, around the time jogger Karina Vetrano was killed earlier this month, a high-ranking law enforcement official said. 
 
 The man in the sketch is not a suspect in the Aug. 2 homicide and is being sought because he may be able to provide information about what he may have seen in the park around the time police think Vetrano was killed, the official stressed. 
 
 Police were able to compile the sketch based on the recollections of a worker at the north end of the park who said he was startled by the appearance of the unknown man as he left the park along a bike and jogging trail near the Belt Parkway, the official said. 
 
 “A worker in the area said he spotted a guy,” the official said. The worker was surprised to see the man and for a moment thought he was going to be mugged, the official said. 
 
 After a number of attempts at rendering the sketch, police think they now have what was described as a generic portrayal of the person they would like to talk with about what he may have seen. 
 
 Meanwhile, a so-called mystery jogger seen recently in Howard Beach was ruled out as a possible subject in the investigation of the killing of Karina Vetrano after the person voluntarily talked with police Monday night, a top NYPD official said Tuesday. 
 
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 The 48-year-old man walked into the 106th Precinct late Monday after Philip Vetrano, the slain woman’s father, said on a radio program that both he and police wanted to talk with the man. 
 
 Police have said she left her home about 5:30 p.m. that day for her usual run and is believed to have entered the park at 161st Avenue and 81st Street, about three blocks from her home on 84th Street. She is believed to have run west on a path through the park, where she was confronted by an “unknown person or persons,” police have said. 
 
 Officials said she was strangled, battered and sexually abused. 
 
 On Monday night, Philip Vetrano questioned the whereabouts of the male jogger, saying in a radio interview with Curtis Sliwa on WABC radio that the man had not been seen since Karina was killed. The father said the man used to run in the neighborhood near Spring Creek Park. 
 
 NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said the jogger went to the precinct after hearing the broadcast and was quickly discounted as a subject in the probe. The jogger had hurt his knee and has had to refrain from running in recent weeks, Boyce said. 
 
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 “He heard it , that person came forward — is not a subject at all,” Boyce said. 
 
 Philip Vetrano said he was pleased the man had surfaced. 
 
 “That is great,” he said. “I just wanted to talk to him. I never said he was a suspect.” 
 
 Boyce said detectives still think Vetrano died at the hands of a chance encounter with a stranger in the densely weeded park. 
 
 “We don’t think this has anything to do with Karina’s background at all,” Boyce said. “We still maintain it was a random attack. There is nothing that suggests anybody in her past would do this to her.” 
 
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 The best evidence so far, Boyce said, has been DNA taken from Karina Vetrano’s body and cellphone. However, Boyce said the DNA from Karina’s body has not matched any profiles found in state or national databases. He said that the DNA also has not matched any profiles kept in smaller databases of DNA found at robberies, burglaries and other crimes for which there are no identified suspects. 
 
 Police have focused part of their search on the bike and jogging path at the north end of the park along the Belt Parkway. The path runs west to Brooklyn and east to South Ozone Park. However, there is a lack of video coverage in part of that area, which includes a shopping mall on Erskine Street, Boyce said. 
 
 “We have gone through that with a fine-tooth comb as well — anybody arrested for shoplifting, panhandling — whatever the case may be, we are doing a deep dive on that,” Boyce said of the mall area. ||||| Police released a sketch of a man they'd like to talk to in connection with the death of a missing runner who was found strangled in an overgrown section of a Queens park earlier this month. Marc Santia reports. (Published Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016) 
 
 What to Know The sketch depicts a person the NYPD wants to talk to about the case 
 
 Vetrano was sexually assaulted and killed earlier this month 
 
 Her family is offering a reward of more than $250,000 for her killer 
 
 Police released a sketch of a man they'd like to talk to in connection with the death of a missing runner who was found strangled in an overgrown section of a Queens park earlier this month. 
 
 NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce held up a photo Wednesday of a man wearing a woven wool cap and asked anyone who recognized him to call police. The man was seen in the area around the time Karina Vetrano went missing at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Howard Beach on Aug. 2. 
 
 Her body was found in a marshy area of off a trail several hours later. 
 
 Boyce stressed that the man wasn't a suspect or a person of interest in the case. The man was seen in the area around the path where Vetrano was last seen that day and was spotted by a utility worker. Boyce said that the man could have seen Vetrano or her assailant. 
 
 "We have to speak to this person," Boyce said. "That's the only reason we're putting this out." 
 
 The man is described as being between 35 and 45 years old, standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall and has a medium build. Boyce said his wool cap stuck out on the hot summer day. 
 
 "It's a little unusual he was walking around in August with a cap on," Boyce said. 
 
 Earlier this week, Vetrano's father said he was seeking a runner who frequented the area before her death but hadn't been seen since. Police later said the man was not a suspect and had in fact been resting an injured knee. 
 
 Authorities culled DNA from three different investigative points -- Vetrano's neck, her phone and her fingernails. Police say the fingernail DNA is the strongest, and all the samples point to the same person, though the state and local databases have yet to yield a possible match. 
 
 Vetrano's family has raised more than $250,000 for a reward in the 30-year-old's death. 
 
 Eighty-five tips have poured in to police about the case, Boyce said; nine remain to be investigated. Anyone with information on the Vetrano case should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
– Police may have cracked the murder of a 30-year-old jogger in Queens last summer. Detectives have a suspect in custody after finding a DNA match with evidence at the scene of Karina Vetrano's killing, reports the Daily News. NYPD Chief Robert Boyce identified the suspect on Twitter as Chanel Lewis, 20. Boyce says the Brooklyn man made "incriminating statements" upon his arrest Saturday night, and that the encounter that ended with Vetrano's death looks to be a random one, the AP reports. Vetrano went out for a run on Aug. 2, and her father found her body that night as part of a search team. Lewis reportedly has no criminal history and voluntarily supplied his DNA to investigators. Genetic material was found under Vetrano's fingernails and on her phone and neck, notes the AP. (Vetrano was seen on videotape shortly before her killing.)