Police are still looking for the man who stabbed 19-year-old Harold “Uri” Sellers to death early Sunday morning on the front lawn of Adelante Fraternity.

No arrests have been made.

“We’re still working on it, but at this point I wouldn’t say we were close to an arrest,” said Dennis Ballantine, Ames chief of police.

Ames police and investigators from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation are still looking for three men believed to have been involved with the homicide.

The man suspected to have stabbed Sellers, a Monroe native, is believed to be 19 or in his early 20s. He is described as a white male, about 6-feet tall, medium build with facial hair consisting of possibly a mustache, goatee and long side burns. At the time of the attack, witnesses report that he was wearing a black leather coat, blue jeans and a tan shirt.

Ballantine said that witnesses have indicated that Sellers had a male companion with him while outside the fraternity, and that person was involved in some sort of fight with the suspect before Sellers was stabbed.

“Information we have received indicates that there was an individual in the company of Sellers. There was an altercation prior to the fatal blow and actions were directed at him [Sellers’ companion] by the assailant, but he was not hurt,” Ballantine said.

Ballantine said that after the initial scuffle, the suspect fled the area but returned a short time later, when he stabbed Sellers.

Police have interviewed dozens of witnesses since the slaying.

“Everyone is working in high gear here, but everything is moving along smoothly,” Ballantine said.

James Nolin, a high school classmate of Sellers’ and his football teammate at Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls, helped administer first aid to Sellers on the lawn.

Nolin said he saw the altercation, but is not “Sellers’ companion” that Ballantine mentioned. Nolin said he didn’t get a good look at the attacker. He said the attacker first swung at Sellers’ companion.

“I saw him [Sellers] come across the street after he got stabbed. He talked; he started to mumble and collapsed,” Nolin said. “It didn’t look like he had been stabbed. It looked like he had been cut. . . . I was asking him if he was all right. He said, ‘Yeah, I’m all right.’ I tried to keep talking to him.”

Nolin, who lives near Monroe, said he pulled up Sellers’ shirt.

A member of Theta Chi Fraternity then applied pressure to Sellers’ wound while Nolin continued to talk to Sellers, trying to comfort him.

Nolin said it didn’t take long for police officers and the ambulance crew to arrive.

The Theta Chi member gave Nolin and his friends a ride to Mary Greeley Medical Center.

They left the hospital at about 4:20 a.m.

A transcript of the 911 emergency phone call made by someone at the fraternity house at 2:53 a.m. Sunday is expected to be released in the next few days.

An autopsy on Sellers’ body was performed Sunday by Dr. Thomas Bennett, state medical examiner. Bennett was out of the state Monday and unavailable for comment. As of press time, Ames police had not received a copy of the autopsy report.

Sellers was a student at DMACC and lived in Altoona. He graduated from Prairie City-Monroe High School in 1996 with about a 3.4 grade-point average. He was a three-sport athlete in high school, participating in track, baseball and football, “his speciality,” said Brian Hazelton, athletic director at PCM High School.

Sellers was a linebacker on the Ellsworth football team before he transferred to DMACC this January.

He was thinking about transferring to Iowa State and studying medicine.

Some friends have said that Sellers was looking into joining Theta Chi. Members of Theta Chi have been staying at the Adelante house since their house was destroyed by fire in the fall.

Hazelton, who was with Sellers lifting weights at PCM High School Friday, said that those who knew Sellers well, believe he may have been attempting to break up a fight when he was stabbed.

Hazelton said Sellers was more than 6-feet, 2-inches tall and weighed about 230 pounds.