College Students Fall From Dorm; One Killed
Two students horsing around in a college dormitory in Chapel Hill crashed through a third-floor window and fell onto the concrete below, school officials said. One was killed, and the other was hospitalized.
Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved, University of North Carolina spokeswoman Lisa Katz said.
The two young men were “just running, horsing around, playing,” and went through a window at the end of a hallway, she said. Keith Shawn Smith, a 20-year-old sophomore from Greensboro, died at a hospital. Tyler Joseph Ely Downey, a 19-year-old freshman from Asheville, was listed in fair condition.
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