She Reported that She'd Been Raped. The Next Day, Her Rapist Killed Her

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Danishka Sibaja Mejia was killed last April, one day after reporting to police she had been raped

Latawyne Osborne, the man she accused, confessed to killing her the next day

"He tried to silence her but he made her louder," Mejia’s father said

Danishka Sibaja Mejia always had the courage to do what was right.

That’s one of the lasting memories of the 22-year-old dancer and volleyball player originally from Costa Rica, who was killed in April 2024 during a targeted home invasion in Knoxville, Tenn., by a former friend one day after she accused him of raping her in her sleep.

“One of the things Danishka mentioned during our last dinner on the night of April 4 was that she was not afraid to do the right thing,” Mejia’s mother Melba Mejia said during a recent court hearing,