Purdue Student Faces Murder Charge After Brutal, Mysterious Death Of Roommate
06.10.2022 - 03:59
/ perezhilton.com
A 22-year-old Purdue University student is facing murder charges after his alleged involvement with his roommate’s death.
Early Wednesday morning around 12:44 a.m. Ji Min Sha (pictured above), an international student from South Korea, called campus police to his first floor dorm on the West Lafayette, Indiana campus. When police arrived at the scene they found something they never expected — the body of the cyber security major’s roommate. Varun Manish Chheda was only 20 years old and exactly one month from turning 21 when he was killed. So young…
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The Tippecanoe County Coroner’s Office, who identified the victim, reported he died from “multiple sharp force traumatic injuries” — in other words he was stabbed to death. And although toxicology reports are still pending, police are pretty sure they know what happened. They’ve identified his roommate, the one who called them, as the main suspect.
Sha, who also frequently goes by the nickname Jimmy, was taken into custody by campus police. Purdue Police Chief Lesley Wiete says the alleged attack lacks motive — he calls the killing “unprovoked” and “senseless” as there were no reported incidents between the two students before. It’s been determined by police via CBS News the suspect is not “a threat to the community” — but strangely he’s still being held without bond, according to booking records.
Due to the active crime scene, eight students were removed from the first floor of McCutcheon Hall but are due to be let back into their rooms by the end of the day Wednesday. PU’s president, Mitch Daniels, quickly addressed the situation in a statement on Wednesday following the news of the
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