A nursing student in Texas who was just days away from graduating was stabbed to death by her roommate after an argument over their cats, authorities say.

Chester Lamar Grant, 40, is facing a murder charge in the April 26 death of 23-year-old U.K. native Tamilore Odunsi in Houston. Cops responded shortly before 4 p.m. to an apartment on the city’s southside for a welfare check. Officers knocked on the door but received no answer. Then they walked around to the back of the apartment where they found blood on the concrete patio. Cops entered the apartment and found Odunsi in the kitchen suffering from numerous stab wounds. Officers also discovered Grant in the bedroom with at least one stab wound. The victim was pronounced dead while Grant was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.

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Houston police told local CBS affiliate KHOU the two had been roommates for just a couple months and were in a spat over their cats. The argument escalated and Grant allegedly stabbed Odunsi before trying to take his own life. Police took Grant to the Harris County Jail on Saturday. He is being held on a $500,000 bond.

Odunsi’s family started a GoFundMe account for the woman known on TikTok as Tami Dollars or TD.

“Tami was a beautiful soul, full of light, ambition, and kindness,” the fundraiser reads. “She was just 23 years old. A devoted Christian, she was a God-fearing young woman who found strength and joy in her faith. She had a deep love for her church community, where she was actively involved and always eager to serve others with humility and grace.”

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She dreamed of becoming a nurse and wanted to work with children in her new career.

Odunsi was set to graduate from nursing school just a few days before her murder, her family said. Her death is “an unimaginable loss at a moment that should have marked the beginning of a bright and promising future.”

Grant is slated to appear in court on Monday.

A Florida woman is facing multiple charges for opening fire on a man she lives with after he told the 59-year-old, “You don’t run this house,” prompting her to spit in the victim’s face and pull a silver revolver on him, which she blasted in his direction at least four times, cops say.

“P— boy,” Cassandra Stuckey allegedly called the victim before opening fire on him, according to her arrest report, which was obtained by local ABC affiliate WPLG.

Stuckey, who is a Miami resident, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder with a deadly weapon and illegal possession of a firearm in connection with her alleged Sunday night shooting attack, according to court records.

A Nebraska man called the police to report he shot and killed his roommate, whom he accused of abusing his adult daughter and giving her drugs.

Rodolfo Cateura Nogueras, 40, pleaded no contest in Colfax County District Court to second-degree murder in the death of Ariel Varella Herrera, 45, and second-degree assault in the nonfatal shooting of a neighbor, court documents said.

An affidavit lays out the case that came to light on April 7 at 11:29 p.m. when a call came into Colfax County dispatch.

The Spanish-speaking caller, later identified as Cateura Nogueras, said he had a 20-year-old daughter living with him and a roommate, and the roommate was giving his daughter drugs and abusing her, the affidavit said.

“I’m not calling you to turn him in, I’m calling to tell you I shot him in the head, and I killed him,” he said.

He told the dispatcher where the shooting happened, at a storage facility in Schuyler, about 70 miles west of Omaha. He said he wanted to speak with an officer in person at a local truck stop, but he did not meet up with an officer that night.

At the storage facility, police found blood on the ground and a .22 shell casing outside unit #23. Inside, a sergeant saw blood and another spent .22 caliber shell casing. Authorities found the victim’s body under black plastic tarps in the back of the unit.

Video surveillance footage from a neighboring business showed multiple people in Varela Herrera’s Dodge Caravan coming to the storage unit at 9:33 a.m. After that, the individuals are seen going in and out of storage unit #23 and back into the van.

One man is seen outside the van, looking around, and then going into storage unit #23, which continues throughout the day until 7:52 p.m., when the van leaves. The van then returns at 10:19 p.m. Video shows multiple flashes of light in the van with multiple people inside. Twenty minutes later, a man who appears to be bleeding is seen running from the storage unit.

That man sought treatment at a hospital for a gunshot wound and identified Cateura Nogueras as the person who shot him. During the police interview, the wounded man said he didn’t know where Varella Herrera was.

“He said he was worried about Varella Herrera because Cateura Nogueras told him that Varella Herrera was ‘tied up,”” the affidavit said.

The surviving victim also told police he believed that Cateura Nogueras tried to kill him, shooting him twice — one bullet knocking out a tooth later found on the floor of the storage unit and another that grazed his face and went through his arm, court documents said.

Police tracked down Cateura Nogueras through his cellphone in the early morning hours of April 8 in Missouri. A Buchanan, Missouri, deputy located a Pontiac G-6 parked in a general store parking lot where his phone was pinging. His daughter was with him. Deputies found a .22 caliber Phoenix Arms handgun in the vehicle, court documents said.

Cateura-Nogueras is set to be sentenced on Jan. 22.

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For around two weeks, Jazlynn Roush — a Las Vegas woman accused of killing her 68-year-old roommate with fentanyl-laced cocaine — allegedly went about her day with the slain sexagenarian’s body stowed away in her freezer, according to police.

It wasn’t until an office manager at the property where victim Monique Gilbertson’s mobile home was located began noticing things, such as Gilbertson’s car being parked differently and her dogs barking louder than normal, that Roush’s chilling secret was exposed, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reports.

On Nov. 6, authorities got a call from the manager to perform a welfare check on Gilbertson after attempts to contact her were unsuccessful. She had been living with Roush — who was identified by cops as Daniel Roush, despite her legally changing her name in Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District in 2022 — after meeting her at a Home Depot and hiring her to do handy work, according to her arrest report, which was first obtained by the CBS affiliate KLAS and Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Police went to the 5500 block of Tres Piedras Road where the pair lived, about eight miles east of the Las Vegas strip, and tried knocking on the door to see if Gilbertson would answer, to no avail.

Authorities in Colorado arrested three people and are looking for a fourth after they allegedly attacked and beat up their roommate before holding him captive for several hours.

Deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded around 10 a.m. Monday to the Saint Anthony’s Medical Center in Lakewood, just outside Denver. A 45-year-old man in the emergency room had a horrifying ordeal to tell. He said he had been tied up and beaten over 14 hours by his roommates. According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, he told deputies he had lived in a home in the 4700 block of South Oak Court for a couple of weeks.

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The man said he was in a bedroom in a basement when he overheard his roommates — later identified as 49-year-old Jason Carlson, 48-year-old Sherell Allen, 39-year-old Jimmy Ray Smith II and 41-year-old Luke Anaya — were planning on attacking him, officials said. He first tried to crawl out of a window. When that didn’t work, he barricaded himself in the room by putting items in front of the door. But moments later, the men allegedly broke through the door and fired rock salt at him from airsoft-type guns. They then began assaulting him, the affidavit said.

Smith put his boot on the victim’s throat and applied enough pleasure to “cause him to lose consciousness,” cops wrote. The suspects allegedly bound him to a chair with zip ties and electrical tape. As he was tied down, the roommates “took turns” whacking the victim’s knees with a baseball bat. Then, Carlson poured rubbing alcohol on the victim’s face before “lighting the liquid on fire,” the affidavit said.