Belinda Reingold cried tears of relief when she heard 22-year-old Colton Pitonyak was in police custody.

"It's a relief. It's really a relief for a mother," Reingold said.

It was the first time she'd heard the news. Just this weekend her daughter, attending The University of Texas, moved into the same apartment complex where police say Pitonyak murdered Jennifer Cave, 21.

On Wednesday police tried to reassure the community that it wasn't a stranger-on-stranger crime that happened at the West Campus apartment complex.

But Reingold says she was still shaken.

"It wasn't just the murder, it was the violence involved. I couldn't leave. We've been here since we moved them in on Sunday," Reingold said.

Her daughter, Michelle, isn't dwelling on the crime but safety is at the forefront of her mind.

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Farther down the same street, freshmen say they're too focused on being new students to worry about the crime.

"I'm kind of more preoccupied with moving in, but it is scary to think about," Alicia Ware, an incoming freshman, said.

The last time the UT community dealt with a violent crime was more than a year ago when a graduate student was charged with the murder of his music professor.

"It was very unsettling, and just very somber around the building all day," Cole Burger, a doctoral student in the School of Music, said.

The trial of former UT student Jackson Ngai was supposed to start Monday. It has since been put off until Oct. 13. He's charged with the stabbing death of Professor Danielle Martin.

While the circumstances of the two crimes were different, both will be on the minds of many students as they head back to class.

"Different situation, different end result, same grieving victims' family and friends," Burger said.