British student killed in Texas days before graduation

A British nursing pupil studying successful the US has been recovered stabbed to decease successful an flat successful Houston, Texas, conscionable days earlier she was owed to graduate, accidental constabulary and her family.

Elizabeth Tamilore Odunsi, 23, was discovered connected 26 April by officers who had gone to her level to cheque connected her, Houston constabulary said.

Police said she had aggregate stab wounds. A antheral was recovered successful different country with astatine slightest 1 stab coiled and helium was taken to infirmary successful a captious condition.

Ms Odunsi had a TikTok account, Tamidollars, wherever she posted to her 30,000 followers astir her experiences arsenic a Briton surviving successful the US.

In her past post, from 21 April, she described however she was acceptable to postgraduate successful 2 weeks, and had already booked a holiday.

An online fundraiser to repatriate her remains to the UK for burial has gathered much than £47,000 ($62,000).

"Tami was a beauteous soul, afloat of light, ambition, and kindness," her sister, Georgina Odunsi, wrote connected GoFundMe.

"She moved from the UK to the United States to prosecute her imagination of becoming a nurse, dedicating herself to a beingness of attraction and service," she continued.

"Tragically, Tami was brutally murdered conscionable days earlier she was acceptable to postgraduate from assemblage - an unimaginable nonaccomplishment astatine a infinitesimal that should person marked the opening of a agleam and promising future," her sister wrote.

According to a Houston Police Department statement, officers were called to the pupil lodging analyzable astatine 15:50 section clip past Saturday.

Officers knocked connected the door, but determination was nary answer. They saw humor connected a rear factual patio and entered the apartment.

"The pistillate unfortunate was discovered connected the room level with aggregate stab wounds. A antheral was discovered successful a chamber with astatine slightest 1 stab wound," detectives wrote.

Ms Odunsi was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Texas Woman's University, wherever she was studying, did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from BBC News.

In a station past year, Ms Odunsi described however she preferred surviving successful the US to the UK, telling her TikTok followers that "the vibes are conscionable truthful overmuch amended here".

In a much caller post, she shared video of the headdress and gown she intended to deterioration to graduation, with the caption "3 much weeks".

In an earlier post, she shared a video of herself studying with the caption: "She doesn't cognize it yet, but a twelvemonth from present each her hard enactment volition wage off, she'll beryllium moving arsenic a caregiver successful her imagination speciality."

Ms Odunsi added that she hoped to person a "stronger narration with Christ, surviving a quiescent and peaceful life".