Last weekend I got a call from my daughter at college. She wanted to tell me about "it" before I saw it on the evening news. Early Saturday morning, April 25, at 12:30am a young man tried to slide down the stairway bannister from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor. Instead, he fell over backward landing head 1st on the floor below. He died on impact! The staircase is just 20 feet from my daughter's dorm room door. She said it is creepy that someone died so close to her room & that there is a "memorial" at the foot of the stairs as a constant reminder. I asked her if drinking was involved & she said he drank 2 beers but was not drunk or impaired in any way. She said although he was an upper classman she did know him saying he was nice & smart. Fortunately, she was not inside her room at the time but got a call after the incident. Her dorm hall was taped off & filled with police when she was forced to enter through a side door. The paramedics left a mess too b/c they tried & had succeeded once in reviving him. The police took a piece of the carpet too as evidence. I watched the news here at home but it was not on the news here. We both thought it would have made the state wide news. It's my daughter's 1st experience knowning someone her own age that has died. It is just such a sad, sad story!