THE alleged murder of a Purdue University student by his roommate in their dorm shocked the nation on Wednesday.
Gji Min Sha, 22, was arrested as a suspect in the mysterious death of his 20-year-old roommate Varun Manish Chheda, which police are treating as a homicide.
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Varun was stabbed to death in his dorm room in the McCutcheon Hallon the West Lafayette, Indiana, according to police.
A preliminary autopsy by the Tippecanoe County Coroner's Office found "multiple sharp force traumatic injuries."
Gji Min Sha was taken into custody after calling 911 shortly after midnight.
Police said the alleged murder appears to be "unprovoked" and "senseless," as reported by CBS News.
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Varun, from Indiana, was a senior studying data science and was about a month short of his 21st birthday.
Gji Min Sha, originally from South Korea, is a junior majoring in cybersecurity.
Unfortunately, this is not the first murder at a college campus to rock the nation.
LOLA MARTINEZ
One of the most shocking college murders also took place at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne campus.
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Lola Martinez, 22, was murdered in her dorm by her roommate Tanzania's mother Tina Morris back in 2008.
Morris had been living in her daughter's on-campus apartment, without permission, for about two weeks before the murder.
She told police she stabbed Martinez to death because the graphic design student was rude to her daughter.
Morris first claimed self-defense but eventually confessed to the murder and pled guilty.
She was sentenced to 60 years in prison and is still serving her time at the Rockville Correctional Facility in Rockville, Indiana.
NICK ARMSTRONG
Freshman at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos Nick Armstrong died in 1999 after attending a party at the Kappa Epsilon house.
The 21-year-old had joined the fraternity and fell asleep on a couch at the house after the bid-night party.
While he was asleep, former student Jeremiah Wilkerson, 21, smashed a baseball bat into Armstrong's head.
Wilkerson was reportedly upset that he had been asked to leave the party.
Wilkerson killed himself after police named him as a suspect, and he was never taken into custody for the murder.
XIN YANG
The case of Virginia Tech graduate student Xin Yang is perhaps one of the most gruesome college murders ever.
Back in 2009, the international student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife at the Au Bon Pain restaurant in the university's Graduate Life Center.
It happened just two weeks after her arrival in the country, as reported by CNN.
Yang had gone to the coffee spot to chat with fellow Chinese student Haiyang Zhu, who was a doctoral candidate.
Zhu, then 26, pleaded guilty to murder. Detectives discovered he had written a love letter to Yang before the murder, but she had informed him she was engaged.
OMEGA CHI MURDERS
The massacre at the Omega Chi sorority house on the Florida State University campus is one of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy's most famous crimes.
On the night of January 15, 1978, Bundy walked into the residence and began raping, beating, and murdering sorority sisters.
Margaret Bowman was found in her bed choked to death with nylon pantyhose. Her skull had been crushed by a club used by Bundy.
Lisa Levy was also beaten to death, and one of her nipples had been nearly bitten off.
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Cheryl Thomas, Karen Chandler, and Kathy Kleiner were also attacked that night but survived.
Bundy was arrested shortly after and put to death after being suspected of more than 30 murders.
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