TUCSON, Ariz. - Briefly, they were 18-year-old freshmen sharing two things: their Navajo heritage and a University of Arizona dormitory room.
But less than three weeks after school started, something went terribly wrong between Mia Henderson and her roommate, Galareka Harrison.
On Wednesday, days after Henderson filed a police report accusing her roommate of stealing, a fight broke out between the two, and Henderson was stabbed to death, authorities said. Harrison was jailed on suspicion of murder.
“You wonder what could provoke them to be so aggressive toward another girl because you never think that girls are going to act so violently,” said Holly Polk, a student from Elkhorn, Wis., who lives in the dorm where the fight occurred.
Police would not say what Harrison had been accused of stealing, and would not release the police report her roommate filed on Aug. 28.
But Lee Ann Dejolie, a Northern Arizona University student who described herself as a close friend of Henderson’s, said Henderson had complained earlier this week that her roommate had been going through her purse and taking things.
“So Mia was really ticked off,” Dejolie said.
