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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – A 40-year-old man, Chester Lamar Grant, was charged with the death of his roommate after the police said that a woman was found in her apartment in Southeast Houston last month.

The Houston police authority said that on April 26, shortly before 4 p.m., officials were called to an apartment complex in the GoForth Street in order to receive social control. When the officials arrived and knocked on the door, nobody replied and they found blood on the back terrace.

A woman who was identified as 23-year-old Elizabeth Odunsi was found on the kitchen floor with several stab wounds and declared dead at the scene.

The police said Grant had been discovered in a bedroom with at least one stab wound and taken to the hospital in a critical condition. It is unclear how he was wounded, but the investigators believe that there is a chance that it was added.

The investigators later identified Grant as roommates of the victim and in this case the suspect. He was arrested last week on Friday, May 2, and charged with murder.

The two lived in a quad plex from Offsite student in which he has housing housing housing. According to the university's website, Odunsi was completed with a nursing qualification. According to a magistrate, Grant was a student at Fordham University.

In a court court, a judge said that the two were in a fight for Grant's cat and described it as “brutal murder”.

The Houston police confirm that they have been called to the quad plex several times in the past. People who live in the building said that the officials were hours before the discovery of Odunsi's body for a fight between the roommates.

It emerged in court that Grant was arrested and convicted several times for domestic violence in the state of Washington, and most recently in 2023 for violating a protective arrangement.

In the GoForth building, individual rooms are rented from “for a place to life”, and the roommates are paired by chance. The company's website says: “We do not use any criteria to meet the roommate compatibility to place roommates.”

The company stated that the background exams for applicants.

“If the applicant has questionable objects in the background that we believe that they are not suitable for a common house, we asked that they received a private unit,” says the website.

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Grant's bond was set at 500,000 US dollars.

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