A Tennessee State University student was found dead lying on a Michigan road days after returning home for summer break.
Surveillance video reportedly showed Mia Kanu either falling or being pushed out of a vehicle onto the street. Police are treating her death as a homicide.
Officers from the Southfield Police Department discovered the unresponsive body of the 23-year-old in front of the Coach House Apartments on Providence Drive on June 3, around 4:32 a.m., according to the Detroit Free Press.
She was immediately transported to Ascension Providence Hospital, where she was placed on life support for two days. Her mother said doctors pronounced her dead two days later but kept her on life support for three additional days because her organs were going to be donated to someone in need.
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“There was no brain activity. Her liver went to a baby, her kidneys went to a recipient, and her tissues and muscles were donated to the Gift of Life,” said Bianca Vanmeter, her mother, adding that she looked “like a beautiful angel lying in bed” during those last days.
Detectives are attempting to piece together what happened in the last hours of her life, hoping to find clues to her premature demise.
According to her mother, she saw her daughter on the morning of June 2, right before she left home for work. It would be the last time she saw her daughter alive.
Kanu was later picked up from her summer job at the Green Lantern restaurant by a female friend who had been staying with them and taken to a party. The car that the friend used to pick Kanu up from the eatery was identified as the same vehicle involved in the incident, the mother said.
“She was with her friends, and from my understanding, she was thrown out or fell out of a vehicle. She was found on the…
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