By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
Published: 03:48 BST, 10 April 2019 | Updated: 04:42 BST, 10 April 2019
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The University of South Carolina will award a posthumous degree to Samantha Josephson, a student who was murdered after she mistook the killer's car for her Uber last month.
USC Director of Public Relations Jeff Stensland confirmed to ABC4 that Josephson will be honored during a commencement ceremony in May.
The 21-year-old was just weeks away from graduating with a political science degree when she was kidnapped and killed.
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The University of South Carolina will award a posthumous political science degree to Samantha Josephson, a student who was murdered after she mistook the wrong car for her Uber last month. The 21-year-old was weeks away from graduating with a political science degree when she was killed on March 29
On March 29, Josephson got into a car that she mistakenly thought was her Uber as she was trying to return home from a bar near the USC campus in Columbia, South Carolina.
The driver of the black Chevy Impala had the child lock activated to prevent her from escaping the vehicle and attacked her, inflicting numerous wounds to her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot, using a sharp object.
Her body was found
