A theatre professor whose husband is currently battling cancer was shot and killed by her roommate who mistakenly thought she was an intruder breaking into their Georgia home Monday evening, authorities said.

Erica Anderson, a 41-year-old lecturer at Columbus State University, was fatally shot at the residence in Columbus, Ga., Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan told WTVM . 3

She had just recently joined the school’s Department of Theatre & Dance for the fall semester as a lecturer in costume while also supervising its costume shop, according to a GoFundMe organized by her family.

Anderson returned to the Georgia home, where she was renting a room and living with an unidentified roommate, around midnight after visiting her husband and children in Indiana. 3

Her roommate, t

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