University of South Carolina has confirmed the death of a missing student a day after she was seen getting into an unidentified car

Columbia Police Department

• The University of South Carolina confirmed Saturday that one of its students had died after going missing Friday.
• Police in Columbia, South Carolina, had issued a missing person alert for 21-year-old Samantha Josephson Friday evening after she was last seen getting into a car early that morning near campus.
• Student newspaper the Daily Gamecock reported Saturday that Josephson's friends believe she got into a car she mistook for the rideshare she had ordered.

A University of South Carolina student who went missing Friday has been confirmed dead less than a day after police began investigating her early-morning disappearance.

University President Harris Pastides wrote in a statement released Saturday morning that the school was mourning 21-year-old Samantha Josephson after her death.

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