Officials Probe Stabbing Death of UC Davis Student
DAVIS, Calif. — A student whose body was found at a University of California fraternity house died of stab wounds to his neck and chest, the coroner’s office said Friday.
Andrew Vernon Wieman, 20, of Eureka may have committed suicide, said campus spokeswoman Lisa Lapin.
“It’s possible that it is a suicide; it’s possible that it isn’t,” Lapin said. “There was a note left, and the note appears to have been written by the student who died.”
University Police Capt. Rita Spaur said the note is being analyzed, but suicide has not been determined.
Mary Koompin-Williams, chief deputy coroner for Yolo County, said her office was treating the case as a “suspicious death.”
Wieman’s body was found Thursday at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house by fellow fraternity members who went looking for him after he failed to show up for class.
He was a third-year student majoring in managerial economics.
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