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Sadness, on an absolutely beautiful autumn day…

… at the death of a student at my campus. William Gwathmey came from a loving, accomplished New York family, and was on his way in the world too.

Gwathmey’s official cause of death has not been determined because a report by the D.C. Chief Medical Examiner’s office is not yet complete. The junior had used cocaine and drank alcohol the night before his death, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. After going out to several nightclubs that night, Gwathmey returned to an apartment at The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton on 23rd Street, where he was later found unconscious on a couch, according to the report.

Margaret Soltan, September 22, 2014 4:59PM
Posted in: STUDENTS

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One Response to “Sadness, on an absolutely beautiful autumn day…”

  1. Jack/OH Says:

    The death of young people by misadventure or suicide seems to me awful. There’s much to feel black about at any age to those who have an ounce of human sensibility, but you just hate to see young people succumbing to that blackness.

    We’ve had at least a handful of ODs and suicides among young people at our local Podunk Tech the past decade.

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