Cause of Death for USM Student

New Orleans police say a University of Southern Mississippi student fell through a closed 11th story hotel window onto a hotel’s fourth floor pool deck and died.
Twenty-year-old Cole Whaley he died early Saturday at the Doubletree Hotel. Whaley was a student from Mobile, Alabama and was in New Orleans for an off-campus function of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. The coroner’s office statement says toxicology tests are pending.
Asked how Whaley came to fall through a closed window and whether roughhousing was involved, police spokeswoman Dawne Massey wrote in an email that police department is still collecting witness statements.

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