Investigation of UA student death halted
An inconclusive university police investigation into the death of UA student Brian Scott Balcer was closed last week after an autopsy report revealed no drugs in his system.
"We don't know why he died," Cmdr. Brian Seastone of the University of Arizona Police Department said yesterday.
Balcer, who police believe fell over the banister of an outdoor staircase on the south side of the Art building, 1031 N. Olive Road, suffered a broken pelvic bone, bruised lungs, head and rib fractures.
A female student who had seen Balcer, 18, stumbling around the Art building earlier that evening in his pajamas found him unconscious on the ground only a few minutes later, but did not see him climb or fall from the 30-foot staircase.
Balcer, who was taken to University Medical Center Oct. 17, reportedly told medics he had taken LSD, but the autopsy found no traces of the drug.
Balcer died the morning of Oct. 26.
Liz Dailey can be reached via e-mail at Liz.Dailey@wildcat.arizona.edu.
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