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CHAMPAIGN — A week after police responded to protests on the University of Illinois campus and arrested two demonstrators, members of an encampment calling for the UI to divest from
Montoria Samuels, 26, was pronounced dead at 1:50 a.m. at Carle Foundation Hospital, the Champaign County coroner said. She was allegedly choked by a 15-year-old family member over the weekend.