EASTON, Pa. — An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday for a freshman lacrosse recruit at a private Pennsylvania college who died after being found unconscious near a dorm over the weekend.
Police in Easton have only said that 19-year-old McCrae Williams was involved in a “chain of events” that began Saturday at Lafayette College and ended with his death at a hospital Monday afternoon.
However, the headmaster of Williams’ former boarding school in Massachusetts said in a letter to parents that he suffered a major head injury in a fall before his death.
Catherine Hill, the headmaster of Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts, did not specify in the letter how Williams might have fallen. A school spokesman said Hill learned of the injury from Williams’ parents, who were with him when he died.
The college’s public safety officers responded to a call of a medical emergency outside a dormitory around 4:30 p.m. Sunday and found Williams unconscious. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday.
Easton Police Lt. Matthew Gerould said he couldn’t say whether alcohol was involved because the investigation was only beginning and the autopsy and toxicology tests weren’t complete.
Williams, of Weston, Massachusetts, was recruited to play lacrosse at the school this year. The team joined with about 500 other students in a vigil to mourn him Tuesday night.
