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   "Bernstein's Grindr Profile was reportedly active that day."   
      
   ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- A search warrant obtained by the Orange   
   County Register reveals more details about the account of a   
   friend who was last to see a college student found slain in a   
   California park this week. Authorities had been searching for 19-   
   year-old Blaze Bernstein for days when his body was found   
   Tuesday afternoon in brush surrounding a neighborhood park in   
   the Foothill Ranch area of the city of Lake Forest, the Orange   
   County sheriff's department said. The University of Pennsylvania   
   student had been home in California on winter break when he   
   vanished.   
      
   Bernstein was last seen around 11 p.m. on Jan. 2 while entering   
   Borrego Park. Authorities have said witnesses said Bernstein met   
   up with the friend and the two drove there, and he got out of   
   the vehicle and went into the park.   
      
   The friend said when Bernstein didn't return he sent messages to   
   him, then left and returned hours later to search for him,   
   reported CBS Los Angeles.   
      
   At a Wednesday press conference, authorities released few   
   details about what they called an active investigation, other   
   than to confirm they are investigating the death as a homicide,   
   no one is in custody and police believe that Bernstein was   
   likely killed the night he went missing. Brad Valentine, the   
   chief of police services for the City of Lake Forest, also   
   confirmed a search warrant had been executed Tuesday night in   
   the city of Newport Beach, but wouldn't release further   
   information.   
      
   The Orange County Register reported new details about the   
   friend's story to investigators Thursday, including that the   
   friend appeared nervous during a police interview and had   
   scratches on his hands and dirt under his fingernails. The paper   
   cited a 16-page search warrant affidavit it obtained, but it's   
   not clear whether the affidavit is related to the Newport Beach   
   search warrant.   
      
   According to the affidavit, the friend and Bernstein both   
   attended the same Orange County high school. The friend said he   
   picked up Bernstein and they drove to a parking lot of a Hobby   
   Lobby in Lake Forest Jan. 2 to "hang out" and "catch up," the   
   paper reports.   
      
   The friend said Bernstein told him they were going to meet   
   another friend from high school, and they drove to the Borrego   
   Park parking lot shortly before midnight, reports the OC   
   Register. The friend said Bernstein walked by himself into the   
   park. After about an hour, the friend said he tried to contact   
   Bernstein unsuccessfully on SnapChat, then left around 1 a.m.   
   and drove to his girlfriend's house in Tustin.   
      
   When Bernstein still hadn't responded around 3:40 a.m., the   
   friend said, he returned to the park around 3:40 a.m. to search   
   for him.   
      
   Detectives interviewed the friend two days later and noticed   
   that his hands had several small scratches and abrasions, the   
   paper reports, citing the affidavit. The friend allegedly said   
   the scratches were from a "fight club" he was involved in.   
      
   Detectives also noticed he had dirt under his fingernails, the   
   paper reports, and the friend said he "fell into a dirt puddle."   
   The affidavit says the friend was nervous and "breathing heavy,   
   talking fast and visibly shaking," according to the paper.   
      
   The friend agreed to an interview at the sheriff's headquarters   
   in Santa Ana, where the affidavit says his story "stayed fairly   
   consistent," though he told detectives he couldn't remember the   
   last name of the girlfriend he said he visited after Bernstein's   
   disappearance and didn't know where she lived.   
      
   According to the paper, the affidavit also says that   
   investigators noticed that the friend, while leaving the   
   sheriff's headquarters, "every door (the friend) had to touch on   
   the way out of the building he pulled his jacket over his hand   
   to prevent his hand and fingers from touching any part of the   
   doors he touched."   
      
   Valentine said Wednesday police had interviewed the friend who   
   last saw Bernstein multiple times and said he is not in custody.   
   He would not comment as to whether police had identified any   
   suspects or persons of interest.   
      
   A sheriff's spokesperson declined to comment on the affidavit to   
   the paper.   
      
   Bernstein's parents gave an emotional statement to reporters   
   Wednesday, thanking the sheriff's department and crying as they   
   embraced. Bernstein, a sophomore, was planning to major in   
   psychology and later study medicine, the Orange County Register   
   reported his father Gideon Bernstein saying last week.   
      
   On Wednesday, Gideon Bernstein thanked community members through   
   tears for their support in the efforts to find his son.   
      
   "Our family is devastated," he told reporters.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/details-emerge-about-friends-   
   account-of-blaze-bernsteins-last-moments/   
                
      
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