This archive report was first published on 10 November 2019.
Published on November 10, 2019, an autopsy report revealed the cause of death of Norah Borus Chelagat, a 24-year-old Kenyan student who was found dead inside her room at Stanford University in June 2019.
According to the report by the Santa Clara Medical Examiner’s Office, Norah died by suicide from poisoning.
Before her death, Norah had recorded a video expressing her longing for Kenya and its people. In the video, she said, “Before Stanford, I had never gone out of Kenya. People are nice but I miss Kenya, the food, the people. There is a certain feeling you get while in Kenya’ like people are waiting for you. I want to get some experience here and use it when I go back to Kenya,”
Norah was a high-achieving student, ranked as the top student in Nairobi County in the 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam and fourth nationally. She joined Stanford University in 2014 to study Computer Science.
She was laid to rest at her father’s farm in Ray Farm, Moiben Constituency on June 29th.
