Missing Student Found Dead

An IIT student missing for a week, Benjamin Collen, 19, was found dead last evening in a fraternity house on campus. Officials believe the death is a suicide, but an investigation is being conducted. [Trib]

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They say that his death was ruled an accident. Due to breathing carbon dioxide from a canister.

What does this mean? How do you accidentally breath in carbon dioxide from a canister while you're in a storage room in a frat house?

The way they're reporting this, it doesn't make any sense.

How do you accidentally breath in carbon dioxide from a canister while you're in a storage room in a frat house?

I dunno, maybe he mistook it for nitrous oxide? I could see that being in a frat house storage room.

What I want to know is why they didn't scour the kid's frat house as soon as he went missing. Wouldn't that be the first place you look? I thought I heard he had recently been kicked out of the house or the fraternity or whatever but still, wouldn't you look there first?

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