They sat silently in front of the Unfinished P sculpture on campus, a representation of all the students who don’t complete their Purdue education, holding candles and bowing their heads in respect.
Dr. Pamela Sari, a professor at Purdue and a member of the school’s Asian Resource and Cultural Center, addressed the large crowd gathered for a candlelight vigil by saying, “We will go through this together, in unity as a Boilermaker family.”
They had Varun Chheda on their minds. He was assassinated on Wednesday early in his dorm room on campus. According to police, Chheda’s roommate, a fellow Purdue student, is charged with murder.
Investigators are still attempting to determine what took place. Many people discovered the tragedy when they got up on Wednesday.
Even those who came to pay their respects observed a long period of quiet throughout the evening. As they left floral arrangements and sympathy messages, people hardly spoke at all.
Unbeknownst to the data science major who was scheduled to graduate this year, many of the students who attended the vigil nevertheless came to express their support.
These pupils never anticipated having to do it due to the passing of one of their own.
