# @nbcnewyork on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TR8i2TpOY4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73196842-nbcnewyork-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2019-04-01T23:38:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NBC New York (@nbcnewyork) — https://gondola.cc/nbcnewyork

## Caption

The cause of death has been released for a University of South Carolina student from New Jersey who police say was kidnapped and killed after mistaking a car for her Uber in Columbia, South Carolina's bustling Five Points bar district.

Samantha Josephson, 21, of Robbinsville, New Jersey, died from multiple sharp force injuries, according to the Clarendon County Coroner.

Josephson's time at the University of South Carolina was winding down and she spent another night with friends in Five Points. She got separated from the group, so she called an Uber to take her home around 1:30 a.m. Friday, authorities said.

The first dark car Josephson went up to was not her ride, her father, Seymour Josephson, said. So she jumped into a second similar looking car.

After getting into the car, the driver, identified by police as Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, attacked her, causing numerous wounds to her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot with a sharp object, according to arrest warrants and the coroner's report. The documents didn't say what was used to attack her.

Rowland is now charged with kidnapping and murder in Josephson's death.

Anchor Stefan Holt also reports on new information in the death of a New Jersey nanny, an investigation into magician David Blaine and a wild brawl at a McDonald's in Atlantic City. 

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news, fivepoints, columbia, crime, uofsc, sc, cpd, scnews

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