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Purdue student who confessed to killing his roommate apologizes, says he was ‘blackmailed’

Ji Min Sha, 22, a junior studying cybersecurity at the university in West Lafayette, called 911 at 12:44 a.m. on Wednesday to report that he had killed his roommate, Varun Manish Chheda, with a knife.

Chheda, a 20-year-old senior majoring in data science, was found dead on a chair in their first-floor room at McCutcheon Hall. A preliminary autopsy determined that he died of multiple sharp-force traumatic injuries to the head and neck.

Sha was taken into custody after being found in the same room with blood on his body and clothing. A folding knife was also found on the floor.

Sha, who goes by the nickname “Jimmy,” is an international student from South Korea. At an initial hearing on Friday, he told reporters “I’m very sorry” and said “I was blackmailed,” without elaborating.

Purdue University Chief of Police Lesley Weite is convinced that the attack was unprovoked.

“I believe this was unprovoked and senseless,” Weite said. “Our hearts go out to the victim and his family and friends. I can't even imagine what his family is going through.”

So far, police have confirmed that Chheda was gaming online with friends on the night he was killed. One of those friends, Andrew Wu, told WTHR that he suddenly heard screaming.

Another friend, Arunabh Sinha, told NBC News that while he was not playing with Chheda at the time, he was told of the attack and that his friends did not know what was going on.

Chheda, who was of Indian descent, was a National Merit Scholarship award winner and a national runner-up in the 2016 Science Bowl Competition. An obituary described him as an “inquisitive” person who “loved the sciences” and had a “contagious” passion for any subject matter.

In a letter, Purdue University President Mitch Daniels assured students that a “thorough investigation” is ongoing and that the Office of the Dean of Students, Residence Halls, and Counseling and Psychological Services are providing support to those who need or want their care.

Sha is scheduled to be formally charged on Thursday. He remains held without bond at Tippecanoe County Jail.

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by Anonymousreply 76October 15, 2022 5:24 PM

Closet cases are all fucking CRAZY.

by Anonymousreply 1October 10, 2022 10:52 PM

So I'm guessing the one on the right sucked the one on the left's dick, and he was going to tell.

CASE CLOSED!

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by Anonymousreply 2October 10, 2022 10:54 PM

R1, I don't think you mean that. Some closet people come from very religious upbriningngs and cannot easily come out especially when young.

by Anonymousreply 3October 10, 2022 10:54 PM

I mean it 100% R3.

Fuck all closet cases.

They're evil and deranged and any "relationship" they ever get into, ends up badly.

Why are you even defending them???

by Anonymousreply 4October 10, 2022 10:58 PM

R4, You are either a minor or sick. Suppose a little 18 yr old is closeted and contemplating suicide.

by Anonymousreply 5October 10, 2022 10:59 PM

[quote] sharp-force traumatic injuries

In other words, stab wounds?

More Korean student craziness. And when they hear about it back in Korea, rather than there being any introspection at all, they’ll immediately blame America (ie, the victim) again like they did with Seung-Hui Cho.

by Anonymousreply 6October 10, 2022 11:01 PM

CASE CLOSETED! (FIFY R2)

by Anonymousreply 7October 10, 2022 11:01 PM

You're the sick one, R5.

Trying to defend a murderer.

Hope you burn in HELL.

by Anonymousreply 8October 10, 2022 11:02 PM

[quote] More Korean student craziness. And when they hear about it back in Korea, rather than there being any introspection at all, they’ll immediately blame America (ie, the victim) again like they did with Seung-Hui Cho.

Why do we even allow those people in our country.

They should be banned from coming here.

Fucking SICKOS.

by Anonymousreply 9October 10, 2022 11:03 PM

^ because the US is a shithole and this is what happens in shitholes ?

by Anonymousreply 10October 10, 2022 11:45 PM

[quote] ^ because the US is a shithole and this is what happens in shitholes ?

Funny how so many of those people are desperate to come to this "shithole."

They come to school here, live here, work here, buy property here.

They even do "birthing tourism" so their babies will have American citizenship in this "shithole."

Sorry, but your argument is a MASSIVE FAIL.

by Anonymousreply 11October 10, 2022 11:48 PM

It's hilarious when these dirty and despicable foreigners call the US a shithole.

They are so fucking desperate to live here. They'll do ANYTHING for American citizenship.

Yet on the reverse side, you don't see Americans beating down the doors to china, japan and korea to become citizens. We laugh at them.

So um, yeah. Try again.

by Anonymousreply 12October 10, 2022 11:50 PM

Stormfront has arrived.

by Anonymousreply 13October 11, 2022 12:03 AM

Was there animosity between him and the roommate?

by Anonymousreply 14October 11, 2022 12:12 AM

R4 is hardly a minor. He is a fucking elder gay. Elder gays are the only ones who hold this militant attitude toward the closet.

He is 60 years old if he is a day. Picking on children. Murderous ones perhaps, but children nonetheless.

by Anonymousreply 15October 11, 2022 12:42 AM

R11 who exactly are you talking about? Those folks you are talking about sound pretty successful, compared to "real" Americans whining about living paycheck to paycheck and crying about not being able to buy a house.

by Anonymousreply 16October 11, 2022 12:45 AM

Stormfront has arrived.

Funny how you say foreigners are ungrateful, and you immediately get labeled as a right winger.

But then R10 posts this:

[quote] ^ because the US is a shithole and this is what happens in shitholes?

And Americans are supposed to be okay with that?

Go fuck yourself.

I'm American and I'm proud, and if you don't like this country then GET THE FUCK OUT.

by Anonymousreply 17October 11, 2022 12:50 AM

^ Stormfront

by Anonymousreply 18October 11, 2022 1:05 AM

[quote] you don't see Americans beating down the doors to china, japan and korea

have you ever been to any of these countries? they are full of americans.

by Anonymousreply 19October 11, 2022 1:14 AM

[quote] have you ever been to any of these countries? they are full of americans.

Tourists.

American tourists.

They're not residents, the way that you foreigners invade the United States.

You people come to America as RESIDENTS.

Americans go to your country as VISITORS.

There's a big difference, you stupid CUNT.

by Anonymousreply 20October 11, 2022 1:29 AM

These countries think Americans are trash and don't want them.

They do like how Americans are for sale to the highest bidder, which is usually them.

by Anonymousreply 21October 11, 2022 1:30 AM

R20. So you haven't been to any of those countries then. Have you ever left Nebraska? I'm guessing not.

I lived in China and there were plenty of American residents. Same with Korea, same with Japan, and same all over Europe. Good public services and less hideously unbalanced labour legislation can be quite powerful draws.

by Anonymousreply 22October 11, 2022 1:51 AM

Pornhub

by Anonymousreply 23October 11, 2022 2:08 AM

[quote] An obituary described him as an “inquisitive” person

Wondering if he was a busybody Gladys Kravitz who found his roommate in a compromising position and blackmailed him. Well curiosity did you know what to the cat.

by Anonymousreply 24October 11, 2022 2:19 AM

The Korean guys isn't bad. The Indian guy is tragic. Well... He's dead bow so I guess that is part of the tragedy. Wonder what the ugly ass Indian guy-ling had on him.

by Anonymousreply 25October 11, 2022 2:27 AM

Deport this asshole back to Pyongyang!

by Anonymousreply 26October 11, 2022 2:31 AM

All the mask wearing has deprived the Asians of oxygen and common sense. Just like some here on DL.

by Anonymousreply 27October 11, 2022 2:34 AM

We're trying to fill in missing pieces without enough details. He didn't say his roommate was blackmailing him so there are a number of options. Here are a couple of other possible scenarios:

1. He got caught up in one of those sexually explicit catfishing situations where someone says they're going to send the photo to everyone on his computer and his parents, unless he comes up with $500 bucks to send them immediately. He asks his roommate for the money, gets turned down and, despondent, he kills him. (It seems I read about one of these deals at least once a month, where a kid kills himself over these sort of internet blackmail deals, so people seem to get really desperate in these situations)

2. His roommate caught him cheating on a research paper and says he's going to turn him in unless he gives him money - lots of colleges have zero forgiveness policies on academic cheating now and such a thing would result in immediate expulsion.

3. Indian guy has some enemy as school who plots an elaborate revenge on him, by getting dirt on the Korean and threatening to use the dirt to get him put in jail or something worse, unless he kills the Indian guy.

by Anonymousreply 28October 11, 2022 2:46 AM

Just out of curiosity, how does one say "rough trade" in Korean?

by Anonymousreply 29October 11, 2022 2:47 AM

[quote] We're trying to fill in missing pieces without enough details. He didn't say his roommate was blackmailing him so there are a number of options.

Are you deaf, dumb, blind, illiterate or ALL OF THE ABOVE?

He clearly says it in his statement:

[quote] Sha, who goes by the nickname “Jimmy,” is an international student from South Korea. At an initial hearing on Friday, he told reporters “I’m very sorry” and said “I was blackmailed,” without elaborating.

It always astounds me that some Dataloungers are so incredibly stupid.

by Anonymousreply 30October 11, 2022 2:48 AM

R30, I think R28’s point is that the quote doesn’t specify who was blackmailing him. It might have been someone else, and the Indian guy was collateral damage.

by Anonymousreply 31October 11, 2022 2:54 AM

Your "point" makes even less sense, R31.

"Mr. A is blackmailing me, so I'm going to go kill Mr. B."

That is SO stupid. No logic to your argument at all.

Stop trying at this point. It just makes you look really dumb.

by Anonymousreply 32October 11, 2022 2:57 AM

Thanks, r31. You understood what I was saying. r32 exhibits one-dimensional thinking and has not watched enough Murder She Wrote episodes, clearly....LOL

by Anonymousreply 33October 11, 2022 3:01 AM

It's like Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, except with Harold murdering Kumar.

by Anonymousreply 34October 11, 2022 3:53 AM

[quote] 3. Indian guy has some enemy as school who plots an elaborate revenge on him, by getting dirt on the Korean and threatening to use the dirt to get him put in jail or something worse, unless he kills the Indian guy.

I'd watch that Korean drama.

by Anonymousreply 35October 11, 2022 12:48 PM

Any Asians who've been black maled in the US do tend to act out their shame at comparative deficiencies in the worst way.

by Anonymousreply 36October 11, 2022 12:55 PM

Is that why so many deranged American men have mass shooting tendencies? Or is the blackmale (oh, dear) the definitive qualifier.

by Anonymousreply 37October 11, 2022 3:22 PM

It's always the Indian roommates who do the blackmailing! But then again, I would trust the dog-eating, micro-peened Koreans, either.

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by Anonymousreply 38October 11, 2022 3:43 PM

^^ I wouldn't ^^

by Anonymousreply 39October 11, 2022 3:44 PM

[quote] Well curiosity did you know what to the cat.

What did it do?

by Anonymousreply 40October 11, 2022 4:06 PM

[quote] Any Asians who've been black maled in the US do tend to act out.

They can’t handle the BBC?

by Anonymousreply 41October 11, 2022 4:07 PM

This is why rice gays prefer potatoes. Sticky rice like this situation can be... well... sticky .

by Anonymousreply 42October 11, 2022 4:08 PM

Well, now he'll get blacknailed.

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by Anonymousreply 43October 11, 2022 4:33 PM

Sum Ting Wong!

by Anonymousreply 44October 11, 2022 6:32 PM

Don't get us started on those black males

by Anonymousreply 45October 11, 2022 6:59 PM

The trans threads disappear instantly. This cesspool, though, festers comfortably in the daylight.

by Anonymousreply 46October 11, 2022 7:25 PM

R46 When we have 3000 threads on this murder I'll concede you have a point.

Probably undiagnosed schizophrenia or something similar. Just because he told police he was being blackmailed doesn't mean it happened.

by Anonymousreply 47October 11, 2022 11:17 PM

I wonder if the killer is of Chinese descent, despite being from South Korea. He looks more Chinese than Korean to me, and Sha is a more common Chinese last name than it is Korean.

I bet it was a video game dispute. Maybe the Indian was playing games all night long, and Sha got fed up and stabbed him.

by Anonymousreply 48October 11, 2022 11:24 PM

[quote] I bet it was a video game dispute.

Video Game Blackmale.

Yeah, um... NOPE.

by Anonymousreply 49October 12, 2022 12:01 AM

Maybe he was blackmailed about game items. Children these days.

by Anonymousreply 50October 12, 2022 9:01 AM

The killer is pretty hot. I'd definitely, you know...wanna see more of him.

by Anonymousreply 51October 12, 2022 12:21 PM

Asian Nerd lives won't matter until Asian Nerd lives matter to Asian Nerds!

by Anonymousreply 52October 12, 2022 12:51 PM

Nah, he's at the age when all the crazy manifests. Most likely schizophrenic.

by Anonymousreply 53October 12, 2022 1:05 PM

Maybe the academic pressure got to him?

by Anonymousreply 54October 12, 2022 11:10 PM

[quote] The killer is pretty hot.

You definitely need your eyes checked.

You could not be more wrong if your lips were attached to your asshole.

by Anonymousreply 55October 12, 2022 11:44 PM

The smell of the Indian guy probably drive him insane

by Anonymousreply 56October 13, 2022 12:48 AM

[quote] The smell of the Indian guy probably drive him insane

Nah, it was probably the rotting shit smell of KimChi soaking in the korean's bathtub.

by Anonymousreply 57October 13, 2022 12:54 AM

Many Indians do in fact have the most awful smell. I wonder if it's because many of them just weren't brought up bathing much or because they bathed in a feces invested river.

by Anonymousreply 58October 13, 2022 4:17 AM

Rosie O'Donnell has issued a statement.

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by Anonymousreply 59October 13, 2022 4:20 AM

Indian people eat too much onion, it stinks up their sweat.

by Anonymousreply 60October 13, 2022 4:23 AM

Can they ever get rid of the scent or are they ruined?

by Anonymousreply 61October 13, 2022 4:29 AM

They have to completely stop eating onion for a while before the malodor goes away.

by Anonymousreply 62October 13, 2022 5:07 AM

Not to jumped into the "stinky Indian" bandwagon but I experienced it myself as one of my ( thankfully) former Indian housemate with body smell that like shit. I'm not exaggerating his body literally smell like a human feces. Forced me to an awkward conversation of telling him to take showers more regularly. He left left less than a week later.

by Anonymousreply 63October 13, 2022 6:14 AM

I'm pretty sure it's the lack of deodorant in addition to the food.

by Anonymousreply 64October 13, 2022 11:53 AM

Do students at Purdue University, learn about chicken?

by Anonymousreply 65October 13, 2022 4:26 PM

Yeah r64 in my city they actually have classes Indians can take that teach them about how to bathe regularity and use deodorant

by Anonymousreply 66October 13, 2022 8:04 PM

Wow Tyler Clementi was so long ago?? Seems like 6 years ago not 12.

by Anonymousreply 67October 13, 2022 9:03 PM

[quote]Do students at Purdue University, learn about chicken?

I’m not sure about that. I do know, however, they’re taught proper comma usage.

by Anonymousreply 68October 14, 2022 5:41 PM

The chicken Perdue isn't spelled the same.

by Anonymousreply 69October 14, 2022 6:07 PM

Ji Min Sha, a 22-year-old cybersecurity major from Seoul, South Korea, was charged on Oct. 13 with one count of murder in the killing of his 20-year-old roommate Varun Manish Chheda.

Sha, who goes by the nickname “Jimmy,” stabbed Chheda multiple times in the head and neck with a knife on Oct. 5 before he called the police to report the incident.

Chheda, a 20-year-old senior majoring in data science, was found dead in a chair in their room at McCutcheon Hall. According to a preliminary autopsy report, the victim died of “multiple sharp-force traumatic injuries.”

Sha was found in the same room with blood on his body and clothing when he was taken into custody.

Although prosecutors have not released a motive in the killing, Sha told reporters, “I was blackmailed,” without elaborating at an initial hearing last week. He also apologized to the victim’s family and told reporters, “I love my family,” before he was brought into jail.

He is currently being held without bail.

If Sha is convicted, he could face between 45 and 60 years in prison, according to Tippecanoe County Magistrate Sarah Wyatt.

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by Anonymousreply 70October 14, 2022 9:50 PM

[quote] Sha, who goes by the nickname “Jimmy,” stabbed Chheda multiple times in the head and neck with a knife

OUCH!

by Anonymousreply 71October 14, 2022 9:51 PM

JIMMAAAY

by Anonymousreply 72October 14, 2022 11:26 PM

Why would he call authorities to confess, that seems like a pretty stupid move.

by Anonymousreply 73October 15, 2022 3:07 AM

He confessed because he did it. I believe he was blackmailed and out of his mind about it. I wonder what was the blackmail.

by Anonymousreply 74October 15, 2022 7:00 AM

Gay sex

by Anonymousreply 75October 15, 2022 3:54 PM

We liked Korea better when they weren't allowed to travel abroad until age 40. By contrast, Americans would be better if they were forced to travel abroad before age 30.

by Anonymousreply 76October 15, 2022 5:24 PM
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