A fifty-year-old who came to attend her daughter’s graduation ceremony lost her life on Sunday after falling about forty meters in the stadium where the event for 12,555 students was held.
“The Ohio State University is in mourning following the passing of Larissa Brady, a family member of one of our graduates. Our thoughts are with his family and friends during this exceptionally difficult time,” University spokesperson Ben Johnson said Tuesday, according to CBS News.
Around noon on Sunday, the graduation ceremony held at Ohio Stadium in Columbus was overshadowed when the 53-year-old woman crashed to the ground near the stadium bell tower, after falling forty meters, while the last graduates entered the premises.
The woman was probably there for her daughter at the time of the incident, noted for her part the Columbus Dispatch based on the ceremony program.
The fifty-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, the American media said. But according to the police, the death was neither of criminal nor accidental origin, while the authorities would consider it a suicide, the University spokesperson would have clarified, according to CBS News.
The ceremony reportedly continued without mention of the incident. However, help was reportedly offered after the fact to graduates shaken by the situation, among the 12,555 who had to leave the ceremony passing by the yellow police ribbons placed at the scene.
An investigation has been opened to shed light on the situation.
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