As Katie Smith ’15 began narrowing down her college of choice, she decided it was time to entrust social media with finding her future roommate. After hours of crafting a perfect mini biography that revealed Smith was witty and intelligent but still liked to party, she posted this biography in the LiOnion University Class of 2019 Facebook page and began to field an exorbitant yet expected amount of responses from other “down to earth” girls who also “liked to have fun.” One of these responses came from Aubrey Killman, who is now being charged with attempted homicide.

“Aubrey seemed so chill,” Smith said. “Her pro pic had, like, 132 likes and her VSCO was super artsy, so I figured she had to be normal.”

On Dec. 14, 2015, Katie’s world was turned upside down. She was awoken around midnight to excruciating abdominal pain from the ongoing stab wounds Killman was inflicting upon her.

According to Smith, Killman began to present character traits that deviated from the typical sorority girl she was hoping for following the first week of classes.

“I remember Katie calling home to tell us that Aubrey wasn’t down to party,” Katie’s mother Jane said. “As a mother, my biggest fear was that my daughter would not become a member of the top sorority house.”

During Katie’s testimony from the July 14 trial, she mentioned that toward the end of the semester she woke up in the middle of the night multiple times only to find Killman staring at her.

“It was kind of creepy, but I had better things to worry about like my appearance,” Katie said.

LiOnion reached out to Killman, however, according to her publicist, she was too busy working with Netflix on an upcoming docuseries entitled “Living with a Murderer” to comment.

“I will forever be traumatized by the events of that night,” Katie said. “I guess the only good thing that came from it is that once this Netflix show is released I will be insta famous.”