"Fearing that she was going to scream, he attacked her, wrapped the towel around her head, put his arm around her neck, choked her and dragged her outside to his trunk and put her in," he said.
By the time he got her into the trunk of his car, her body was limp.
Chen drove a short distance away, and when he went to check in on the schoolgirl, she wasn't breathing.
"So this was a botched kidnapping attempt, a very incompetent one as well because he didn't have any plans to take her anywhere. He was hoping that he could just leave her in the trunk, phone the family, get the money, and then let her go," Murphy said.