19-Year-Old’s Death Tied to Drinking Binge
A 19-year-old college student drank up to 40 beers and shots of liquor in an 11-hour period before she was found dead in a fraternity house, investigators said in Fort Collins.
Samantha Spady had a blood-alcohol level of 0.436 -- above the 0.4 considered potentially deadly -- when her body was found Sept. 6 at the Sigma Pi fraternity house at Colorado State University, Deputy Coroner Dean Beers said.
Spady drank the equivalent of 30 to 40 12-ounce beers or 1-ounce shots of liquor, Beers said, but her death was ruled an accident.
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