Charlottesville police announced Tuesday evening that they have issued a warrant for the arrest of Jesse Matthew for abduction with intent to defile in the case of missing UVA student Hannah Graham.
In a packed 7pm press conference called just an hour before, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said Matthew, 32 and until now a person of interest in the case, was still at large, and Graham has not been found.
“We absolutely are continuing our search for Hannah, even as we speak,” Longo said, “and we will continue our search for Hannah.”
Longo declined to offer any details about what led them charge Matthews during the brief press conference, but said “state and federal resources” have been deployed to try to find him. Matthew was last seen by police on Sunday, September 21, when he walked into the Charlottesville Police Department with members of his family, asked to speak to a lawyer, then sped away in a pale blue Nissan Sentra. Police were unable to follow him, and charged him in absentia with reckless driving.
A new poster has been released with the updated charges against Matthew:
