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By Steve Huff in unsolved
Monday, Sep. 1 2008 @ 2:04PM

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Pravia either committed suicide in a very strange way, or he was murdered by a strong, committed, twisted killer.

kpravia.jpgPravia's roommate discovered the Pace University honors student dead in the apartment they shared in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood on Sunday night. Pravia lay face-up in his bed, a cord around his neck. Plastic had been jammed into his mouth.

But the New York Daily News reported that there was no sign forced entry into the apartment Pravia shared with his female roommate. Additionally, even though Pravia's death appeared on the surface to be the result of a homicide, investigators haven't ruled anything out. He could have died from suicide or even misadventure.

If Pravia was murdered, he may have been killed by a physically powerful and motivated killer -- various search engine hits revealed an athletic background while he was still a high school student in Pittsfield, MA. Photos on Facebook show a trim young man, likely still in good shape. If he committed suicide, the whole story becomes much more murky -- why? Was it intentional, or was he experimenting, in some fashion?

Those are questions that really need not be answered publicly. If Pravia killed himself, his death will be a private tragedy for his family and friends to deal with. This sounds a little too much like murder, at the moment. If he was killed by someone else, all of Chelsea should be on the lookout. [MyFoxNY.com and the New York Daily News via Gothamist.]