06:07 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 6, 2005

By TIM KNOL / 6NEWS

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Christy Galvin, 26.

Police in New York have taken the boyfriend of a woman found dead in her apartment Tuesday morning into custody. He was stopped by customs agents at the Canadian border late Tuesday night.

Police said Seyi Tayo Odueso, 27, was trying to cross the border into Canada around 11 p.m. Customs officers detained him in Alexandria Bay, New York. They said Odueso was driving the silver 2003 Nissan 350z police had been looking for.

Odueso is now charged with murdering his live-in girlfriend Christy Galvin, 26. Police said she died violently in her apartment over the weekend.

A co-worker called authorities after the victim didn't answer her phone. Galvin worked for the apartment complex and co-workers became suspicious when she did not report in.

Firefighters were the first to arrive on the scene at her apartment on Ivy Meadow Drive in the University area. They quickly turned it over to police after making the gruesome discovery.

It was an emotional scene at the apartment complex where Galvin’s body was found. Odueso’s mother was overcome with grief.

"We don’t know what's true at this point," said a friend of the victim, Mike Bell. "Kind of upsetting - very upsetting."

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police want to find Seyi Tayo Odueso, 27.

Bell is a long time friend of the couple. Police entered the apartment Tuesday morning after getting that 911 call from management. Odueso had not called in either.

"He called me on Monday, kind of in a distressed mood - a little upset and I tried to comfort him and talk to Christy," Bell said. "And she was no where around at that point. That was last Monday. That's the last we heard up until now."

"We certainly were trying to locate anybody who would have seen Christy this past weekend. Including anybody she might have lived with or been associated with over the weekend,” said Officer Brad Koch with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

Galvin played volleyball at UNCC Charlotte. Her coach remembered her as a hard worker, quiet, but full of surprises.

“She always had a prank. That was one of many fond memories of her. She would pull a prank and you wouldn’t think it was her because she was so quiet. But then you’d see a sly little smile from her and you’d know she had gotten you,” UNCC volleyball coach Lisa Marston said.

Odueso will be returned to Charlotte to face charges.

6NEWS reporter Glenn Counts provided information used in this story.