JUST IN: Purdue University student found
dead inside residence hall in West Lafayette, Indiana, before dawn
on Wednesday, according to university spokesperson.
The school's police force is investigating the death as a homicide,
the spokesperson says. https://t.co/nP5hwESzeP
Chheda's death is Purdue’s first on-campus homicide in more than eight years, police said.
不算多吧。上一次还是2014年。
Andrew F. Boldt, 21, of West Bend, Wisconsin, was fatally shot Jan. 21, 2014, in the basement area of the electrical engineering building, the school said in a statement after the incident.
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A student at Purdue University was stabbed to death inside his dorm room on the Indiana school's campus early Wednesday, according to officials and preliminary autopsy results. A suspect, the victim's roommate, has been arrested in connection with the crime.
The victim was identified as Varun Manish Chheda, 20, a senior at Purdue studying data science. His roommate was identified as Ji Min Sha, 22, a junior majoring in cybersecurity and originally from Seoul, South Korea, according to Purdue University Police Chief Lesley Wiete.
Sha currently faces a murder charge for his alleged involvement in his roommate's death, police said at a news conference held near McCutcheon Hall, the residential building on Purdue's West Lafayette campus where Chheda was killed. Sha is being held without bond in Tippecanoe County Jail, booking records show.