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| After his roommate is killed in a dorm, a student at Purdue University is taken into custody and charged with murder. According to the school's police chief, a student at Purdue University was detained on a murder charge on Wednesday and is accused of killing his roommate during the course of the night at a residence hall on the campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. Varun Manish Chheda, a 20-year-old Indianapolis senior majoring in data science, was found dead, according to Tippecanoe County coroner's office and Purdue University Police Chief Lesley Wiete. According to Wiete, Ji Min "Jimmy" Sha, a junior cybersecurity major and foreign student from Korea, called 911 at roughly 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday to inform authorities of the fatality. The call's specifics weren't made public. According to the authorities, the event took place in a room on McCutcheon Hall's ground level. According to jail records, Sha was detained on a murder accusation on Wednesday in the Tippecanoe County Jail. Records show that no bond was set.  According to early autopsy results, Chheda died from "several sharp force traumatic injuries," and the cause of death was a homicide. According to the coroner's office, toxicology results will determine the final autopsy results. Arunabh Sinha, a friend from Chheda's early years, told NBC News that on Tuesday night, when she was gaming and chatting with others online via Discord, they abruptly heard screaming. Sinha's pals said they heard the attack but didn't know what happened that night even though they weren't playing with him. They learned of his passing on Wednesday morning. |