YPSILANTI, Mich., June 21 (UPI) -- Eastern Michigan University didn't warn its students about a possible campus homicide after a student was found dead in her room, a report said.
When Laura Dickinson, 22, was found dead in her dorm room in December, college officials announced no foul play was suspected, even though the student was half naked, a pillow was over her face and her keys were gone, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Another student was charged with rape and homicide in Dickinson's death in February.
"The facts show that the university failed to timely and properly warn the campus community about Ms. Dickinson's death, which was unquestionably a possible homicide," said a report by the Detroit law firm Butzel Long commissioned by the university board of regents, the Post reported.
It said the school may have violated a federal law intended to warn students of such threats on campus.
Eastern Michigan University President John A. Fallon III apologized for the university's handling of the case this week and vowed that "never again will such a confounding series of mistakes be made on my watch."
