A Purdue University student was arrested on a murder charge Wednesday after he allegedly killed his roommate in a residence hall on the Purdue Campus.
Purdue University Police Chief Lesley Wiete said that Ji Min Sha, a junior cybersecurity major and international student from Korea, called 911 around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, to alert police about the death.
Details of that call were not disclosed, but authorities said the incident occurred in a room on the first floor of Purdue’s McCutcheon Hall.
Authorities identified the slain student as Varun Manish Chheda, a 20-year-old senior from Indianapolis who was studying data science.
According to reports Chheda died of “multiple sharp force traumatic injuries” and the manner of death was a homicide, according to preliminary autopsy results.
The police chief did not discuss a motive or details about potential weapons in the killing. She said the 911 call came from the room and only Chheda and Sha were in the room at the time.
