Police have identified the murder victim found near St. Edward’s University Sunday.

Rosemary Lorraine Borges, 65, lived in an apartment complex at 1718 Woodward St., about a mile from The Heights, a nearby apartment complex, Austin Police Sgt. Hector Reveles told reporters at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

Borges, who was blind and used a walking stick, was found Sunday between the curbside of South Congress Avenue and The Heights after police received a 911 call at 10:35 a.m. on Oct. 16, Reveles said.

He said the body was in an area where it would be difficult to place it without being seen.

“She was in a partially clothed state,” Reveles said, adding that she had suffered, “traumatic injuries. It was a brutal death.”

Police don’t know how Borges wound up at The Heights, which is next to St. Edward’s, or where she was murdered.

Reveles said Borges was, “a low-risk victim” who did not engage in activity that would put her at risk for murder.

Reveles said he “could not elaborate” on whether Borges was sexually assaulted. Forensic tests are being conducted.

Police are not ruling out the possibility of multiple suspects in the murder, Austin’s 23rd murder this year.

Police have talked with people who lived in Borges’ apartment complex who saw her alive on the afternoon of Oct. 15. They are asking for help from the public to find people who saw her the evening of Oct. 15.

Reveles said Borges’ friends described her as sociable.

“This is tragic,” Reveles said.

Junior Rachel Harber said she saw the body while she was on the way to the HEB on the corner of South Congress Avenue and Oltorf at around 1 p.m. She said the body was “literally on the north side” of the fence that separates St. Edward’s from The Heights apartments.

Police were securing the crime scene and beginning to block view of the body from the street when Harber saw the woman.

Harber said the woman was naked and lying on the ground with her feet in the direction of the street.

“It was disturbing,” Harber said. “I think the thing that weirded me out was that I live down the street, and the idea that something like that could be going on so close to you. It really makes you think about the things that do go on around us that we don’t know about and don’t notice.

A maroon 1997 Nissan Maxima and a white 1998 Oldsmobile were seen near where the body was found, according to the police report.

The University Police Department assisted in collecting information for the investigation, according to police Sgt. Richard Guajardo.

“I thought that out of all that was the most unsettling was … realizing that this was right by my house, and that while I was sleeping last night, this poor girl was probably dying,” Harber said.