Sarah Papenheim was supposed to be coming home for Christmas. 
 
 The 21-year-old drummer, a precocious up-and-comer on the radar of some of the Twin Cities' most respected musicians, had a show to put on. Next week, she was scheduled to be onstage at Schooner Tavern in Minneapolis, playing the blues with a friend and fellow musician. She was supposed to be flying in from the Netherlands, where she was attending Erasmus University in Rotterdam. 
 
 But on Wednesday, a phone call from Dutch authorities replaced anticipation with grief: In Papenheim’s own apartment Wednesday, police said, her roommate stabbed her to death. 
 
 “I’ve cried so much my ducts are dry,” her mother, Donee Odegard, told Fox 9 in Minneapolis. 
 
 Police arrested Papenheim’s roommate, a 23-year-old man and cello player, Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of murder and expect he will be charged in her death soon, a Rotterdam Police Department spokesman told The Washington Post. The suspect, whom police have declined to identify, fled the apartment building in Rotterdam on a train and was captured at a station 65 miles away, carrying a suitcase and a cello, police said. 
 
 Police aren’t sure about his motive in the killing at this time, the spokesman said. Her mother told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that her daughter started living with him about a year ago after bonding over music, but that he had recently become unstable. Odegard said her daughter planned to leave the apartment to stay with her boyfriend, but returned to grab clothes for school, which is when Odegard believes the stabbing happened. 
 
 In a statement to The Post, Odegard said her daughter was always “the brightest person in the room.” Papenheim is the second child Odegard has lost. Her son, Papenheim’s brother, committed suicide almost three years ago, she said. 
 
 That was why her daughter had decided to study psychology at Erasmus University, Odegard said. She wanted to understand it. 
 
 “She lived for drumming, but she also wanted a steady career and was extremely interested in psychology [with an emphasis in studying] suicide, for which she lost her brother,” Odegard said in the statement. 
 
 Papenheim loved the blues, Odegard said. While she spent some of her childhood in the Twin Cities, she attended high school in Redding, Calif., where she played drums in the jazz band and marching band. Her band teacher told the Redding Record Searchlight she “felt strongly about being a female drummer,” an instrument traditionally dominated by men. Returning to Minneapolis after school, she was thundering away behind a drum set at Shaw’s Bar in Minneapolis every Monday night before she was even old enough to have a beer, blending in with musicians twice her age. 
 
 Garry “Jellybean” Johnson, the funk virtuoso from Morris Day and The Time and who has played drums for Prince, was among those who took note. Eventually, he would become her mentor. 
 
 "I liked her because she hit the drums just as hard as guys did,” Johnson told CBS Minnesota. “So I nicknamed her ‘Thumper.’ ” 
 
 When he learned from Odegard about what had happened to her, Johnson said, he couldn’t wrap his mind around it, especially because she was studying to make sense of her brother’s suicide. 
 
 “I’m still numb from it,” Johnson told CBS. “I still can’t believe that something this bad happened to her." 
 
 Living in the Netherlands didn’t keep Papenheim away from her music, or even the Minneapolis music community. On her birthday last year, she jammed with the Minneapolis-based Bernard Allison Group at a rock venue in Germany while the band was on tour. Perched behind the drum set, she whipped her high ponytail back and forth with the beat, rumbling through a cover of “Sweet Home Chicago.” Every now and then, she closed her eyes, scrunching her face with the gusto of the Blues Brothers' John Belushi. 
 
 “How about it, ladies and gentlemen?!” yelled singer and guitarist Bernard Allison. 
 
 On Wednesday, he posted the clip with a message addressed to Papenheim, saying, “We will never forget you.” 
 
 Odegard said that for now, she is trying to figure out how to bring her daughter back home, which she expects will cost thousands of dollars. Musicians in Minneapolis organized a benefit concert to celebrate her. As of early Friday, hundreds have donated more than $19,000 to a GoFundMe campaign to aid Odegard in bringing her home. Dozens have offered tributes on Facebook. 
 
 “We have lost a great young musician and heaven has gained one,” the Minnesota Blues Society, sharing a photo of Papenheim behind a drum set, wrote on Facebook. ||||| Video (02:59) : A Twin Cities woman attending college in the Netherlands has been stabbed to death, and a fellow student was arrested, a major newspaper in Rotterdam is reporting. 
 
 A young Twin Cities blues drummer was fatally stabbed while attending college in the Netherlands this week, sending waves of grief across a local music community, which is now coming together to help her family. 
 
 Erasmus University student Sarah Papenheim, 21, of Andover, was killed Wednesday in her Rotterdam apartment about a mile from campus, according to AD Rotterdams Dagblad, the city’s leading daily newspaper. 
 
 Witnesses heard arguing and screams in her third-floor room before the stabbing, police told the newspaper. Joel Schelling, Papenheim’s 23-year-old roommate from Rotterdam, was arrested after trying to flee at a rail station, police said. 
 
 Schelling appeared before a judge Friday and was ordered detained for a further two weeks while the investigation continues. 
 
 Papenheim was studying psychology with an emphasis in suicide, which took her 21-year-old brother’s life three years ago, her mother, Donee Odegard, told the Star Tribune. “My only two kids, and I’ve lost them both,” said Odegard, whose son died four days after she remarried. 
 
 Papenheim was a blues drumming prodigy of sorts, according to her mother, and had a gig booked with local musician Brian Naughton on Dec. 22 at the Schooner Tavern in Minneapolis. 
 
 Sarah Papenheim had a gig coming up with a band in Minneapolis later this month. 
 
 “Brian was here last night talking to me,” Odegard said Thursday. 
 
 Naughton said that despite “Paps” being less than half his age, “she thought of drums and music the way that I did. She just got it, and was so talented and charismatic.” 
 
 Police caught up with Schelling after he got off a train with a large string-instrument case in Eindhoven, about 65 miles southeast of Rotterdam, police told the newspaper. 
 
 Police have yet to reveal a possible motive and are still trying to determine why Schelling chose Eindhoven as his destination. 
 
 Papenheim’s mother said police and her daughter’s boyfriend told her that Schelling in the “last couple of weeks was getting more and more angry.” 
 
 Odegard said her daughter arrived in Rotterdam in 2016 and became Schelling’s roommate about a year ago. She was excited to be living with another musician. 
 
 “They’d talk music all night,” she said. “They kinda clicked on that. Then as time went on, he’d get highs and lows.” 
 
 A few days before the killing, Odegard continued, “two people from mental health came over, but she shooed them away because she was afraid he would think she called them.” 
 
 She said she told her daughter, “ ‘Get out of there,’ but she wouldn’t listen to me.” 
 
 On the morning of the stabbing, Odegard said, Papenheim went to the apartment to retrieve some clothes for school and to take them back to her boyfriend’s place, “and that’s when we think it happened.” 
 
 Odegard said her daughter was a regular during weekly jam sessions at Shaw’s Bar in northeast Minneapolis. 
 
 “If it was Monday night, she was at Shaw’s,” she said. 
 
 Shaw’s server and bartender Shari Seymour said, “We all knew Sarah. I’m looking right now at the table where she and her mom always sat.” 
 
 Lanaya Baker, a bass player and former board member of the Minnesota Blues Society, said she has shared the stage with Papenheim and knew her as someone “who could hold her own” with many of the best musicians in the state. 
 
 Baker said Papenheim celebrated her birthday in March 2017 playing drums in Bonn, Germany, with the Twin Cities’ Bernard Allison Group. 
 
 “She was so courageous” to jump in with such a talent as Allison,” Baker said. “She hadn’t been drumming that often while being in college,” he said. 
 
 Sarah Papenheim 
 
 Stephen Kresko described his niece in a Facebook posting as “such a young, beautiful, intelligent, musically talented woman. We’ll miss you, but beat those drums in heaven, girl.” 
 
 Musicians are planning a concert to benefit Odegard and the rest of Papenheim’s family in an effort to offset some of the expenses that come with returning a loved one’s body from overseas. Odegard said it will cost her family $10,000 to $15,000 to bring her daughter home. 
 
 “We can’t afford it,” said Odegard, who added that she has a broken shoulder and is laid up from her job as a school bus driver. 
 
 Her husband and Papenheim’s stepfather is a semitrailer truck driver. 
 
 One of her many friends has started an online fundraising effort to help the family, and dozens of people had pledged thousands of dollars in the first few hours. 
 
 Papenheim and her family lived in the Twin Cities until second grade, when they moved to Redding, Calif., where she played drums in the Foothill High School jazz band. 
 
 After she graduated, they returned to Minnesota “for the music” scene when she was 18, Odegard said. 
 
 “She always wanted to travel abroad,” Odegard said of her adventurous daughter. “She could light up any room that she was in.” ||||| On Wednesday, December 13, 21 year old Sarah Papenheim was fatally stabbed by her roommate in Rotterdam, Netherlands.Sarah was living in Rotterdam and studying psychology with an emphasis in suicide, which took her 21-year-old brother's life three years ago.It's going to be very expensive for travel costs for the family and to bring Sarah home, not to mention any funeral and burial costs involved. Costs are estimated to be around $40,000.Sarah was a beautiful, vibrant young woman and a talented musician with a smile that could light up a room. She played with some of the best musicians on the scene in the Twin Cities and had many close relationships with them. Her presence is irreplaceable.Sarah's family has already been through this once with the loss of her brother Josh only 3 years ago. Your gift will help alleviate some of the financial burden of this tragedy. Any amount helps.We love you, drummer girl. ||||| (CNN) A 21-year-old American student was stabbed to death in Rotterdam, allegedly by her roommate, police confirmed Friday. 
 
 According to a police statement, authorities received reports of a quarrel at an apartment on Kralingse Kerklaan on Wednesday. When they entered the apartment, the statement said, police found Sarah Papenheim with stab wounds and attempted to resuscitate her. Police say those attempts were unsuccessful, and she died of her injuries. 
 
 An investigation led authorities to the suspect, Papenheim's 23-year-old roommate, who was arrested at the Eindhoven train station, the police statement said. The two lived in the same apartment with their own rooms, but shared a kitchen and bathroom, police said. The suspect has not been named by police. 
 
 Papenheim had moved to the Netherlands to study at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. 
 
 "Sarah studied psychology and lived in the Netherlands since 2016. Our deepest condolences go out to all Sarah's family and friends at this poignant time. The university is shocked by this terrible incident and is taking care of upset students and employees," the university said. 
 
 Read More ||||| CLOSE Foothill High School music teacher Mitch Bahr has fond memories of former student Sarah Papenheim. Jim Schultz, Record Searchlight 
 
 Sarah Papenheim (Photo: GoFundMe) 
 
 REDDING, Calif. – An American student who was attending college in the Netherlands, was stabbed to death Wednesday in Rotterdam, according to friends and published reports. 
 
 Sarah Papenheim, 21, was killed by a 23-year-old man from Rotterdam, authorities say. 
 
 "She was an amazing individual," said Amy Kritzer of Palo Cedro, whose daughter and son were friends with Papenheim. "We called her 'Happy Pap.'" 
 
 Papenheim, a graduate of Foothill High School in Palo Cedro, played drums in the school's jazz and marching bands. She moved to Minnesota after her graduation in 2015. Kritzer described her as a talented musician who always had a smile on her face. 
 
 Her death was keenly felt at her alma mater. 
 
 "It's a terrible day," said teacher Mitch Bahr, who taught Papenheim, as well as her late brother, Josh, music during their years at Foothill High School. 
 
 Bahr said her former student was bright. She loved playing drums and was proud of it. 
 
 "She felt strongly about being a female drummer" in a venture that is mostly associated with males, he said. 
 
 And she was good at it. 
 
 "She became a leader in our band," he said. 
 
 CLOSE The Foothill High School Jazz Band shows its chops during an April 3, 2015 practice session at the school. Jim Schultz, Record Searchlight 
 
 Bahr said Papenheim loved the blues and classic rock and was a huge David Bowie fan. 
 
 In addition to her music, he said, she played an active role in the school's drama department and within the community. 
 
 According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Papenheim was studying psychology in the Netherlands. 
 
 Papenheim and her family had lived in the Twin Cities until second grade, when they moved to Redding. They returned to Minnesota when she was 18 and she played drums at a variety of establishments there, the newspaper said. 
 
 Citing police and Rotterdam news accounts, the Star Tribune said witnesses heard arguing and screams in her third-floor room before the stabbing. 
 
 The man arrested in her stabbing death lived at the same housing complex and was arrested after trying to get away, the newspaper said. 
 
 Police caught up with the man after he got off a train in Eindhoven, about 65 miles southeast of Rotterdam. 
 
 Papenheim came to Rotterdam in 2016. She lived in a building about a mile from campus that caters to young people, offering student rooms, studios and other apartments, the paper said. 
 
 Police have not yet revealed a possible motive for the stabbing. 
 
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– It's a "terrible day" in Palo Cedro, Calif., as the town mourns a young blues drummer known as "Happy Pap." That's where Sarah Papenheim grew up, per the Redding Record Searchlight, and those who knew her there (and in the Twin Cities, Minn., area where she'd also lived) are now devastated to learn the 21-year-old was stabbed to death in the Netherlands, where she was attending Erasmus University. Per the Minneapolis Star Tribune, police say witnesses heard an argument and screams coming out of Papenheim's third-floor Rotterdam apartment Wednesday. Officers found Papenheim inside the apartment with stab wounds, per a police statement cited by CNN. A 23-year-old man said to be her roommate fled the scene, but cops caught up with him as he got off a train about 65 miles away. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of murder and will likely soon be charged in her death, reports the Washington Post. Donee Odegard, Papenheim's mom, tells the Star Tribune that police and Papenheim's boyfriend told her the roommate had been getting "more and more angry" recently, and she says she'd advised her daughter to "get out of there." Even more tragic: Papenheim had been studying psychology, with a focus on suicide, after her 21-year-old brother killed himself three years ago. "My only two kids, and I've lost them both," Odegard says. Papenheim's family says it can't afford the $40,000 or so they estimate it will cost to bring her body back to the US, as well as for funeral and burial costs; a GoFundMe set up to help them defray those expenses had brought in more than $20,000 as of Friday morning. (A Maryland woman was stabbed to death while helping a panhandler.)