Family asked college to check on son; Son found dead in dorm room

[MidwestMom2Kids_1]

<p>Don’t have the full story yet. Very sad.</p>

<p>“Kent State University police and the Portage County Coroner’s Office are investigating the death of a man inside a residence hall on the Kent campus. KSU spokeswoman Emily Vincent confirmed that a body was discovered sometime around 5 p.m. in Leebrick Hall, one of the Tri-Towers residence halls.”</p>

<p>"…Decker said he believed the dead person was a KSU student, and that the man had been dead “for a minimum of a couple of days.” </p>

<p>[Recordpub.com</a> - Body found at KSU dorm: Investigator says man dead for "a couple of days’](<a href=“http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5110623]Recordpub.com”>http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5110623)</p>

[bookworm]

<p>Such sad news.</p>

[mamabear1234]

<p>The article says the police were working to identify the body and notify the next of kin, I don’t see any mention of ‘family asking college to check on son’. Was that from another article?</p>

[rockvillemom]

<p>Most of the very brief articles I saw contain this info:</p>

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KENT – A Kent State University spokesperson has confirmed that the body of a student was found in a residence hall on-campus Sunday evening.</p>

<p>Emily Vincent says the body was found just after 4:55 p.m. on the fourth floor of Leebrick Hall during a welfare check. Welfare checks are done at the request of family members when they have not heard from someone in a while.</p>

<p>The body has been taken by the Portage County Coroner. The Coroner’s office says the victim is a man in his late 20’s.

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[TutuTaxi]

<p>

the victim is a man in his late 20’s.

Very sad, but do you think they are mistaken about the age? Not many students in their late 20s live in a dorm.</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>True tutu, but maybe he had health conditions that made his appearance seem older.</p>

[missypie]

<p>Oh, that makes me feel ill to read that!</p>

[rockvillemom]

<p>An update:</p>

<p>

Officials have just released the name of the student found dead in his Kent State University dorm room Sunday.</p>

<p>James Barnes, 26, of Midland, PA, was found by Kent State University Police Sunday afternoon.</p>

<p>Kent State spokesperson Emily Vincent said police officers found Barnes in his fourth floor room in Leebrick Hall after a family member called the university and asked them to check in on him because he hadn’t contacted family for some time.</p>

<p>Barnes was a first-semester graduate student pursuing his master’s degree, according to the university.

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<p><a href=“http://kent.patch.com/articles/name-of-kent-state-student-found-dead-released[/url]”>UPDATE: Name of Kent State Student Found Dead Released; Preliminary Autopsy Finished | Kent, OH Patch;

[lammb66]

<p>So sad for this family.</p>

[glido]

<p>So sad. Prayers for the family and friends.</p>

[crizello]

<p>Isn’t it sad that nobody in the dorms noticed that he wasn’t coming out of his dorm room for several days?</p>

[Hanna]

<p>That doesn’t seem strange or sad to me. People in college keep all kinds of strange hours. They go out of town or to their parents’ houses at unexpected intervals, too. Sometimes you never see one of your hallmates because his hours are so different from yours. Unless I were good friends with the hallmate whose door was always closed, I would not think anything of it.</p>

[MidwestMom2Kids_1]

<p>What’s known so far: Not foul play, not suicide.<br>
[Recordpub.com</a> - No foul play in Kent State student’s death](<a href=“http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5110954]Recordpub.com”>http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5110954)</p>

[fauxmaven]

<p>It seems odd that nobody noticed him missing . Perhaps a friend ? Especially after a few days ! A very sad ending to one’s life .</p>

[Gwen_Fairfax]

<p>He was a first semester grad student, probably didn’t have close friends there yet. Heartbreaking.</p>

[MidwestMom2Kids_1]

<p>[Vigil</a> honors KSU student who died](<a href=“http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5112612]Vigil”>http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/5112612)
Vigil last night.</p>

[Marian]

<p>

Isn’t it sad that nobody in the dorms noticed that he wasn’t coming out of his dorm room for several days?

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<p>Not really. He obviously lived in a single. Students don’t keep track of each other’s whereabouts, except perhaps for roommates – and maybe not even then. And he was a graduate student. Graduate students don’t tend to seek friends in the places where they live; they’re more likely to try to get to know the people in their specific programs or departments, but this guy wasn’t enrolled for long enough for that to have happened yet.</p>

[Montegut]

<p>We had a similar incident happen at a local public university a few years ago. An older student living in a dorm room was found dead, obviously the victim of some foul play. I don’t know if he was even a grad student. It was news for a few days, but I’ve never heard if the perpetrator was caught.</p>

[charlieschm]

<p>I visited one college where the RA of each dorm asked each student to maintain a calendar of what days they planned to be on campus and when they would be away. It was intended to help them identify if someone was missing, as opposed to just went away for the day.</p>

[starbright]

<p>^ This seems like ridiculous overkill…all that coordination and paperwork, in the event of one random rare occurrence (really, what is the disappearance rate per 100,000 students?). </p>

<p>Not to mention impossible to sustain…as if every kid is going to stick to their plans or remember to report to the calendar when they made new plans. </p>

<p>And so a kid decides on the fly to stay over at a friends, shops too long at the far away mall…is in essence “away for the day” but not on the calendar. What exactly would they do? </p>

<p>I imagine such things exist to make parents feel better.</p>