UC Grad Student Dies After Pool Accident
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A graduate student at UC Irvine’s Merage School of Business has died after spending six days in a coma following an accident during a charity inner-tube water polo event at Stanford University.
Michael Johnson, 34, was pulled unconscious from the bottom of a pool April 17 after participating in the Palo Alto tournament.
“He was very popular, intelligent and well-liked,” UC Irvine spokesman David Lim said.
The school is planning a memorial, Lim said.
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