Authorities in Texas are continuing to search for the person who shot and killed a college student who had volunteered to serve as a designated driver for her friends on New Year’s Eve.
Sara Mutschlechner, 20, a junior at the University of North Texas, was slain in the deadly encounter.
Mutschlechner was driving in Denton at about 2 a.m. Friday after attending a party with her sorority sisters from Zeta Tau Alpha when a black SUV pulled up beside them.
The SUV was carrying five or six men — and words were exchanged between the people in the SUV and passengers in Mutschlechner’s car, police said. Someone in the SUV fired, and Mutschlechner was struck by a bullet before crashing her car.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS POLICE FATALLY SHOOT AX-WIELDING STUDENT ON HIS BIRTHDAY
The San Marcos, Tex. resident was on life support for most of the day Friday before dying, authorities said. One of her friends also sustained minor injuries.
Her family and friends held a vigil Saturday to celebrate her life.
“There’s so many people that knew her that she touched their lives. She never met a stranger,” her father Clay Mutschlechner told ABC News.
“She was friends with everyone,” her mother Gloria Mutschlechner added.
GAME OF BEER PONG LED TO SHOOTING DEATH OF BLINN COLLEGE STUDENT
Mutschlechner was a radio, television and film major.
Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity released a statement following Mutschlechner’s death.
“Each and every one of our lives at the Gamma Phi Chapter of ZTA has been touched by the spunky, selfless attitude of our beloved sister, Sara,” chapter president Jordan Roberts said in the statement. “She is by far one of the most spirited, honest and fun-loving people I ever had the privilege to know. She will truly be missed.”
Police believe some of the people in the SUV may have attended the same New Year’s Eve party as Mutschlechner, but at this point no suspects have been identified or arrested.
