Police Seize Items Where Murder Suspect Morgan Lived : Investigation: Application for search warrant said officers were looking for bloodstained clothing, jewelry.

Police searching the apartment shared by Edward Patrick Morgan Jr., accused of murdering a Huntington Beach woman, seized a hoop earring, martial arts weapons and pants similar to a pair described by witnesses in the case, according to documents released Tuesday.

Police said Morgan was seen leaving the Australia Beach Club on West Metropolitan Street in Orange on May 19 with Leanora Annette Wong, whose battered and mutilated body was discovered the next day in a parking lot across the street.

Morgan, 28, was arrested May 22 in the Northern California town of Quincy and has been charged with first-degree murder with special circumstance, which could result in the death penalty. Police said Wong had been sexually assaulted.

On May 21, police searched Morgan’s apartment in the 500 block of East Palm Avenue. In their request for the warrant, authorities said they were looking for “bloodstained clothing . . . bloodstained jewelry,” Morgan’s parole papers or newspaper articles about Wong’s death.

Police declined to say whether the earring belonged to the 23-year-old Wong, or whether bloodstains were found on it or the seized pants or two sets of nunchakus--a type of flail with wooden sticks attached to either end of a length of cord or chain. Police also found a Bible with Morgan’s name on it and his parole papers.

According to the warrant, a man identifying himself as Morgan’s roommate called them after Wong’s body was discovered and a composite sketch of Morgan was shown on television and said that Morgan was the man who slept in his living room. The man said he had gone to the Australia Beach Club with Morgan, but that Morgan had returned to the apartment by himself later that night.

Bartenders at the nightclub told police that a man matching Morgan’s description was bothering them the night of the murder, and that they considered ejecting him before he left.