On Campus - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 22:53 - 3 Comments

Note Suggests Student Death at Bobst a Suicide

Campus and police sources have confirmed that the death in NYU’s Bobst Library this morning appears to be a suicide.

Rumors have circulated that the NYPD had been investigating the death as a possible homicide. A high-ranking NYU source reports that the NYPD had been considering foul play until they discovered a suicide note left by the student in his dorm room. The NYPD’s press office has corroborated that report.

The NYU source also tells us that the body was, indeed, found on the lobby floor — lending further evidence to the theory that the student jumped.

While the library stacks are supposed to be closed past 1 a.m., our campus source says the elevators were neither locked nor shut off, and that — to their knowledge — the crime scene is also not monitored by security cameras.

For what it’s worth, our source says that these security oversights are something they expect the University will be promptly investigating.