Police investigate murder at Colorado State University www.privateofficer.com

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FORT COLLINS CO. July 28 2008

Kyle T. Greene

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police are investigating the apparent murder of an unidentified man whose body was found in the parking lot of a Colorado State University residence hall late Fiday night.

CSU Police Chief Dexter Yarbrough said police were called to the parking lot of Summit Hall at 11:08 p.m., Friday, on reports of a man suffering a bullet wound.”The officer arrived on the scene at 11:10 p.m. and found an unresponsive male,” said Yarbrough. Efforts to revive the man, by police and rescue personnel were not successful. He was taken to the Poudre Valley Hospital by ambulance where he was declared dead.
Foul play is suspected,” said Yarbrough. “We will treat this situation as a homicide investigation, until this scenario can be ruled out.

“Summit Hall was occupied Friday night by members of a police explorers conference which had accounted for about 3,500 people being on the CSU campus this week.

However, those conferees were all scheduled to depart Saturday morning, and Yarbrough and CSU officials said they believed they had all been accounted for and determined to be safe.The police investigation appeared soon to encompass the Lake West Apartments on Lake Street, immediately south of Summit Hall.

Although the victim had been found in the Summit Hall parking lot immediately west of the Lake West Apaprtment’s north parking lot, the Lake West lot was also marked off by crime scene tape, and police could be seen coming and going from the apartment building throughout the afternoon, while there was no police activity at the nearby Summit Hall.

But management of the Lake West Apartments professed not to know investigators’ interest in their property, or whether a tenant was either a suspect or a victim in the case.Yarbrough, asked about police activity at the apartments, said only, “This is an ongoing investigation, and the investigators have determined that they needed to expand the crime scene.

“He said the victim was apparently shot once in the upper left side of his chest, that he carried no identification, and that he did not appear to be a current CSU student.This marks the third violent death to strike the CSU community in less than a week.

Early in the week, Rebecca Allen, a technical journalism instructor at CSU was struck by a car, along with a friend, while cycling, and died from her injuries. Thursday night, 35-year old graduate psychology student William John Szlemko was hit by lightning, while practicing karate on campus, and he also died.

“We don’t really experience these kinds of tragedies very frequently and to have three incidents in a week is pretty unexpected for us,” said Anne Hudgens, CSU’s Dean of Students.”It has really been a hard week for the CSU community,” she added. “The campus is sort of reeling from all of them I have been at CSU since 1984, and cannot ever remember losing a student to a homicide, or anybody, to a homicide on campus so this is a very unusual event.

“Police said that although the crime is currently unsolved, there is not believed to be any risk or danger to other members of the CSU community or Fort Collins at large.

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