Purdue
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 Tippecanoe County Coroner Carrie Costello and Purdue University police, Varun Manish Chheda, 20, of Indianapolis passed away early on Wednesday inside his first-floor dorm room in McCutcheon Hall. He appeared to have been the victim of a homicide.
Multiple sharp-force traumatic injuries were the cause of death, according to Costello's report from Wednesday afternoon.
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.
Because the suspect was in custody and there was no threat to the college community, police did not issue a campus alert.
Sha is seen being led out of a patrol car by campus police in handcuffs as reporters wait for him in a video that was uploaded on Wednesday. Sha is questioned by a reporter as he is led into a structure: "Can you explain to us why you did it?"
I love my family, Sha seems to remark after a brief pause. He then says it once more.
When asked about the specific circumstances, Purdue police declined to comment and instead directed media to Doty, whose email stated that Purdue police are currently gathering information. He said that while the suspect is in custody, there is no threat to the Purdue community.
Arunabh Sinha, who attended to school for 12 years with Chheda, recalled that their families were also close friends. Chheda, he claimed, was in his third year of college and was about to leave school early.
Chheda was described by him as "a extremely smart person, always at the top of his class, at the top of the chess club, and on the science bowl team." He was so modest about it. He was not only a talented student, but Sinha noted that he "always did things the proper way, he refused to take short routes."
According to Sycamore School, where Chheda attended from kindergarten to eighth grade, he won first place at a state Spanish competition in 2015 and 2016 and received top honors for a presentation in the environmental chemistry division at the State Science Olympiad Competition in 2015 at Indiana University.
