As police were buzzing about the Kenan Community in the early hours of Aug. 19, some students said they were confused about what had occurred.
Donna Sykes, the 49-year old mother of a UNC student, had fallen from a lofted bed and later died from her injuries.
Many students said they wish they had been notified sooner.
“If the police were here, they should’ve said something about it,” said senior Catherine Bruce, who was the neighbor of the victim’s daughter in Kenan Residence Hall.
Bruce said she and other students in Kenan were concerned about Sykes’ daughter, who they have not seen since the incident.
“We’re all concerned for this girl because she hasn’t come back,” she said.
Officials in the University’s registrar’s office said Thursday that Sykes’s daughter has deactivated her Kenan Residence Hall address, though she has not discontinued her enrollment at UNC. The results of an external examination on Sykes have yet to be released, according to the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Junior Matt White, a Kenan Community resident who has a lofted bed himself, said he is considering the option of lowering his bed in light of the incident.
“They’re not the most stable things in the world,” he said.