An unidentified male was found unconscious and abandoned in the bushes along the dimly lit footpath behind the Education building at about 9 p.m. last night.
Department of Public Safety third watch commander Sgt. Lonnie Ekstrom said witnesses reported seeing the male being dragged into the bushes at 8:50 p.m. and being left behind. Paramedics at the scene said the male likely had alcohol poisoning and was in serious condition.
“We were told that (the victim’s) friends – assuming they were friends – dropped him off and dragged him into that location,” Ekstrom said.
The victim was a young white male who DPS officers said looked slightly younger than college age. DPS was unable to find any identification on the male at the scene.
Ekstrom said that the victim was breathing when they found him, but that DPS officers called paramedics because they could not awaken him.
Witnesses getting into their car in the parking lot on Alder Street across from Kappa Delta sorority house called DPS when they saw the male being abandoned in the bushes that are separated from the parking lot by a chain link fence.
Paramedics arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after DPS had first gotten the call, and they managed to revive the victim.
Paramedic Joe Hinkley said officials did not know how long the victim had been lying unconscious until DPS found him, but that he had been out in the 33-degree weather long enough that “hypothermia could be a problem.”
Four paramedics clustered around the victim in the ambulance, which sat stationary behind the Education building with its lights flashing for about 20 minutes before heading for the hospital.
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