An autopsy conducted Wednesday on a University of Georgia student found dead in his Athens dorm room Tuesday night identified no conclusive cause of death, campus police said.
Toxicology testing results are pending for David Peacock Braun, 21, a computer science major from Marietta, but that could take several weeks.
Braun was found dead around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in a room in Vandiver Hall in East Campus Village, UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said. Suite mates concerned about Braun had called UGA housing officials, who contacted police, he said.
“At this point, nothing conclusive has been offered as a cause of death,” Williamson said Wednesday.
Investigators do not suspect foul play and there was no indication the death was self-inflicted, Williamson said.
Braun enrolled at UGA during the fall 2011 semester, said Tom Jackson, UGA vice president for public affairs.
One of the his suite mates, Tevin Reeves, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution it was a smell coming from Braun’s locked room that prompted him to call dorm leaders.
“Then I started thinking how I haven’t seen our roommate in so long,” Reeves said Wednesday. “He stopped playing his music for the past few days.”
When officers entered the room, they found the student dead, Reeves said.
Reeves, a junior from Marietta, said he and his two other suite mates were moved to rooms in another dorm for the night.
Braun was the third UGA student to die in two weeks, Williamson said. One student died of a terminal disease and another from natural causes, he said.
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