Tippecanoe County Sheriff(WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.) A Purdue University student accused of stabbing his roommate to death in their dorm room has been ordered held without bond before he goes on trial. Ji "Jimmy" Min Sha, 22, was formally charged with murder on Thursday in the killing of Varun Manish Chheda, 20, in what police called an unprovoked attack. Prosecutors allege that Sha "did knowingly or intentionally kill" Chheda, charging documents state. Chheda was found dead in his room at McCutcheon Hall, a residence building on the school's campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, after midnight on Oct. 5. Sha had called 911 and told police "he had just killed his roommate with a knife," according to the probable cause affidavit. Responding officers found "apparent blood spatter on the wall, a pool of blood on the floor and a folding knife on the floor," the affidavit said. Sha "admitted he used the knife to kill Chheda while he was sitting in
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(WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.) A Purdue University student accused of stabbing his roommate to death in their dorm room has been ordered held without bond before he