Two UK students fall to deaths from dorm window

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- Lucy - 05-02-2002 11:30 AM

Thoughts & prayers go out to the families & friends of these 2 students.

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Two UK students fall to deaths from dorm window

Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Two college students died early Thursday after they fell out a third-story window at a University of Kentucky dormitory while horsing around, a school spokeswoman said.

A 19-year-old University of Kentucky freshman was pronounced dead at the scene and a Western Kentucky University student, who was visiting his brother at the 23-story Kirwan Tower, died later at the University of Kentucky Hospital.

"The two males were apparently wrestling in an open area of the third floor of the dormitory," spokeswoman Mary Margaret Colliver said. "They smacked against a plate glass window, the window gave out and the two fell three stories to the ground."

She said she didn't know if alcohol played a factor in the accident, which happened around 2:30 a.m. The window was a sealed, double-pane window, roughly 3 feet wide and 8 feet tall. It was covered with plywood after the accident.

The names of the victims were not immediately released.

"As a parent, you dread that phone call at 2:30 in the morning like I got," University of Kentucky President Lee Todd said. "Your heart just goes out to those two families." He and his wife went to the scene to comfort witnesses.

The school was trying to decide whether to hold a memorial service, Colliver said. Many students have left or will be leaving the campus after this week following final exams, she said. <hr /></blockquote>

[ May 02, 2002, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: Lucy ]