Shazim Uppal and Benjamin Rauf both started out in Temple University's Beasley School of Law's evening program, eventually transitioning to the full-time track and graduating within months of one another earlier this year. But by August, Uppal was found dead in his car in a Delaware parking lot, killed, according to police, by Rauf in an alleged drug-related robbery.

The scenario did not fit the image the pair's classmates had of them, according to the few people who would even speak about the incident.

As one alumnus said, “This was a big shock.” The alumnus agreed the two were well liked among fellow law students.