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Royal Oak High School grad’s death ruled accidental
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ROYAL OAK A runner discovered the body of Grand Valley State University student and 2020 Royal Oak High School graduate Taylor DeRosa, 18, near the university’s intramural athletic fields the morning of Dec. 12, 2020.
The Ottawa County Medical Examiner’s Office recently ruled DeRosa’s death “accidental,” despite law enforcement initially describing her death as “suspicious.” The cause of death was hypothermia, with alcohol as a contributing factor.
Police said there was no identification with the body and that, when DeRosa’s body was identified, her family asked the university to release her name.
The on-campus death of a Grand Valley State University student last month was caused by hypothermia and alcohol was a contributing factor, school officials said Thursday.
Taylor DeRosa, an 18-year-old freshman from Royal Oak, was found dead on the morning of Dec. 12 in an area near the intramural fields and cross country trail on the university s Allendale campus.
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investigation by university police showed DeRosa had attended several social gatherings, said Mary Eilleen Lyon, Grand Valley spokeswoman. Police determined she was with friends in a vehicle and asked to be let out to go see a friend around 2:40 a.m., Lyon said.
The GVSU police department had been waiting since mid-December on the results of toxicology testing to provide insight into the cause of death.
Toxicology tests determine if there was alcohol, drugs or other toxins in a person’s system when he or she died and typically take six to eight weeks for results.
Authorities did not release any details as to what those results yielded in DeRosa’s death investigation, however, a university spokesperson said DeRosa had died of hypothermia, with alcohol as “a contributing factor.”
According to the National Weather Service’s past weather records for Dec. 12, the low temperatures that day were in the low 30s Fahrenheit, just above freezing.
Grand Valley State student’s death ruled accidental
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
ALLENDALE, MI – A Grand Valley State University student who was found dead on campus in December died of hypothermia.
An Ottawa County medical examiner determined that Taylor DeRosa, 18, died of hypothermia with alcohol a contributing factor, a GVSU spokeswoman said Thursday, Jan. 28.
The death has been ruled accidental.
In a message to students, GVSU President Philomena Mantella wrote: “Taylor’s death is a terrible tragedy for her family and all those close to her. We know her fellow students, as well as our faculty staff, have been affected. We are a caring community and our hearts go out to all who knew and loved Taylor.”