A 23-year-old woman went to a house party before she mysteriously passed away in Michigan.

Mia Kanu, 23, returned from college in Michigan last month for summer vacation. Her mother, Bianca Vanmeter, said she was trained as a veterinarian.

Kanu’s dream of helping her animals ended tragically when her body was found in the middle of a street in Southfield, about 25 miles northwest of Detroit, in the early hours of June 3, according to police. rice field.

“I don’t know what happened,” VanMeter told the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY network. However, a candlelight rally is scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 pm at Inglenook Park in Southfield.

According to Southfield Police, after receiving a call that a body was found lying in the driveway in front of an apartment building, officers were dispatched to Providence Drive and found her at approximately 4:32 a.m. on June 3. rice field. The body was later found to be a canoe.

She was taken to nearby Ascension Providence Hospital, where she was put on life support for two days, her mother said. She was pronounced dead on June 5, but she was put back on life support until June 8, when the hospital put her on life support because she was an organ donor.

“There was no brain activity,” her mother said. “Her liver was donated to the baby, her kidney to the recipient, and her tissues and muscles to the Gift of Life. …She looked like a beautiful angel lying in bed.” When trying to identify her daughter’s body, she said.

Authorities say they don’t know how Kanu’s body was left on the street, but they know he treated the investigation as a homicide. According to Sergeant Guan, the driver of the car Guan Yu was in before he was found also cooperated. Southfield spokesman Jared Womble said:

“Any unnatural death, especially that of a young person, is considered murder,” Mr Womble said.

Her last days, according to her mother

Van Meter said she last saw her daughter alive on the morning of June 2, before she left for work. was, she said. Van Meter said Kanu was at a house party with her friends on the night of her death.

Her Kanu had been picked up by a friend of hers who works at Berkeley’s Green Lantern, but according to VanMeter, her friend had brought her and her daughter to Kanu’s house. She lived with her daughter. VanMeter said the car he used to pick up his daughter from work was the same car involved in the incident.

Southfield Police confirmed they have video footage of the incident. The Detroit Free Press requested footage of the night’s incident from Southfield Police.

VanMeter said her daughter loved anything that brightened someone’s life. But her daughter’s first love was an animal. While she was at Tennessee State University, she got a cat she named Tails.

“I remember her telling her daughter when she came home from school, ‘Miss, this cat is slippery,'” her mother said with a laugh.

Kanu loved children so much that she sang, danced, and did her hair, her mother said. She worked as a camp counselor at Southfield for a while during her college vacation. As her mother said, Kanu liked the smell of the pages, so she also liked reading books.

Kanu worked at TSU’s Department of Agriculture until she returned for summer vacation in May. She worked on a farm for a while and she took care of various animals. She currently works as a veterinarian at the Richland Animal Clinic in Tennessee.
A spokesperson for the clinic said Kanu was a great person and she was a great teammate. Staff are shocked by her death. They said canoes are popular with all customers and pets.

“Kanu was passionate about educating owners about pet care,” said Dawn Elsa, manager of the Richland Animal Clinic. “She knew all the names and personalities of every pet owner who stayed with us regularly, and she had big ambitions and dreams of starting her own business and becoming a veterinarian. I have returned. She was so sad to leave her job at Richland for the holidays that even after the two-week notice period Kanu was unable to go to her job and finish her duties at Richland. I slept in her car for the last two days of her employment so I could. animal.

“She was like, ‘Who’s going to walk the dog?'” recalls VanMeter.

Currently, VanMeter and his family are distraught and are trying to figure out what happened to Kanu while making funeral plans.

“She likes there (TSU) very much,” said her mother.

Authorities said the case was still under investigation and were awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Kanu is left with her mother, father, stepmother, four sisters, brothers, and many other relatives and friends.

GoFundMe was established in Kanu’s honor to help with funeral costs for his family.