U.S. colleges are on edge after four people were killed in three separate on-campus incidents in Kentucky, Georgia and Colorado over just 10 days.
Most recently, Campbellsville University student Charles Escalera, 21, was charged with murder and burglary in connection with the Feb. 24 death of Josiah Kilman, 18, of Columbia Falls, Montana. Both students were on the school’s wrestling team.
“There are no words strong enough to mend the broken hearts of this family right now. We are all truly in shock at the abrupt and unexpected loss of Josiah and we are asking for an abundance of prayers for them as they grapple with this devastating tragedy,” reads the description of a GoFundMe page for Kilman titled “Josiah Kilman’s Family in Need of Love and Support.”
The Taylor County Coroner’s Office said Kilman died of asphyxia by manual strangulation, according to preliminary autopsy results, though it remains unclear exactly how the 18-year-old was killed.
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Two days before Kilman’s alleged murder, an Augusta University nursing student named Laken Riley, 22, was killed on Feb. 22 while she was out for a jog along a dirt trail on the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens.
UGA authorities arrested Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, in connection with her murder on Feb. 23. Ibarra is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911…
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