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PrintAs the MU community was recovering from the shock of an apparent suicide Sunday at Laws Hall, news began to circulate of the death of a sophomore who fell from a ninth-story apartment window in Kansas City early Saturday.
MU sophomore Christopher Earley, 19, of Chillicothe, fell from a window in his brother’s apartment near the Country Club Plaza shopping district in Kansas City around 2 a.m. Saturday, Kansas City police said.
Homicide detective Ray Lenoir did not offer details surrounding the fall, but said the police believed Earley’s death was accidental. “Everything we know at this point tells us that,” Lenoir said.
Earley was in Kansas City over the weekend to visit his older brother and see his hometown high school basketball team play in a tournament, said Tad Berry, a friend of Earley’s.
“It’s a shame what happened,” Berry said of Earley’s death. “He was a great guy. I will really miss him.”
Earley’s was one of two MU student deaths over the weekend.
Freshman Kyle Masterson, 18, died Sunday when he fell from the eighth-floor balcony of Laws Hall, an MU residential hall, leaving a suicide note behind in his room.
Both Earley and Masterson were studying business, but there was no indication that they knew each other.
Kathleen Boggs, director of the counseling center at MU, said the two deaths have not prompted an increased demand for counseling. The counseling center has offered services to Laws Hall staff and students, as well as to the MU business school.
The counseling center is staffed with licensed psychologists ready to help MU students “to deal with death or a catastrophic event,” Boggs said. “We will certainly provide support to anyone who has been affected.”
In addition to students, the counseling center is also available to faculty and staff through the employee assistance program.
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