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Slain nursing student suspected jilted lover had slashed her tires

Months before she was killed, a Binghamton nursing student believed that the ex-lover charged Saturday with her murder slashed her car tires, according to a police report.

Haley Anderson, 22, was leaving her home on Sept. 16, 2017 when she noticed all four of her tires had cut marks and were flat, according to the report, obtained by WBNG.

She believed the man behind the attack was her classmate, 22-year-old Orlando Tercero, whom she occasionally dated after breaking up with an on-again, off-again boyfriend, according to the report.

The day before her tires were slashed, Tercero confronted Anderson at a party at his home, she said.

He was angry that she was dating that boyfriend — and “got very upset and was shouting at her,” the report states.

Tercero then tried to smooth things over by pouring shots for Anderson and her friends — getting so drunk himself that he began throwing up, according to the report.

Anderson said she tried to help Tercero by getting him to bed and then left his home.

When she posted a Snapchat about her tires being slashed, Tercero claimed the same thing happened to his car, she recounted.

But Anderson thought the situation was suspicious enough to file a police report. She didn’t file charges against Tercero though, and told cops she would try to sort out the problems between them.

On March 9, Anderson’s roommate Josephine Artin discovered her lifeless body carefully arranged in Tercero’s bed.

Tercero, who holds dial Nicaraguan and U.S. citizenship, fled to Nicaragua some time before the body was discovered.

He was captured by Nicaraguan authorities at the Hospital de León Tuesday, where he was getting treated for self-inflicted wounds, officials said.

Authorities are hoping to extradite him after he was charged with second-degree murder in Anderson’s death Saturday.