An Olympic hopeful from Colorado allegedly stabbed an Uber driver to death inside his car and then dumped his body in a field and fled in the man's vehicle, later telling cops that she did it because he tried to touch her, according to police.

Khayla Dawson, 27, of Colorado Springs, claims she was going for a "joy ride" late Sunday night when she scheduled an Uber pickup with 38-year-old victim Jeremy Campbell, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and obtained by Law&Crime.

Dawson — who competed at the 2024 USA Olympic Trials in Oregon in the shot put, according to local ABC affiliate KRDO — alleges that she fell asleep in Campbell's 2016 Hyundai Santa Fe and woke up to him trying to "sexually assault her." She claims to have "defended herself by

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