A freshman at the University of Vermont was found unconscious lying in the cold, off school grounds. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
Nineteen-year-old Connor Gage from Little Falls, New York, was attending his first year at the University of Vermont. But on Feb. 2, he was found dead off campus, in below zero temperatures.
The Burlington Police stated in a tweet that the frigid temperature “seems to have been a cause or significant contributing factor.” Along with the tweet was a letter from Annie Stevens, the Vice Provost for Student Affairs at the university.
According the police report, both the Burlington Police Department and the Burlington Fire Department received the report of an unconscious male lying in the snow at 10:48 a.
