Ole Miss toxicology pending Fox identifies the students

Sep 21

Fox's Madison Scarpino identifies the two Ole Miss students who died separately as eighteen-year-old freshman Aidan Hamilton and twenty-year-old junior Robert Strang, one in a dorm and one off campus. She describes family and fraternity grief and black ribbons honoring the students. Officials have not announced causes of death; governor Tate Reeves is expediting toxicology results. Retail kratom was found at both scenes, but its role remains unknown and authorities do not believe the deaths are connected. The package reports community fears and no announced memorial or funeral arrangements.

ABC reports two students found dead at separate locations and airs a possible-overdose dispatch call. Contemporaneous coroner reporting identifies one as an 18-year-old who died in a campus residence hall on September 21; ABC does not give the student's age or name. Packaged kratom was found in both investigations, but investigators have no confirmed evidence that it or any other substance contributed to either death. The cause of this death and any connection between the cases remain unconfirmed. Fox identifies the campus student as Aidan Hamilton, an 18-year-old freshman from Colorado, and says he died in a dormitory. It reports campus mourning and black ribbons at fraternity houses. The cause remains unknown; kratom was found at both scenes, but authorities do not believe the deaths are connected and toxicology is pending. ABC's October 2 update names Hamilton and describes his death as a suspected overdose. It reports federal drug charges against smoke-shop workers Yahya and Islam Mosleh, alleging their store sold him illegal substances, and says court documents identify the same kratom pills in both students' rooms. The allegations are not a conviction or finalized toxicological cause. ABC calls the death 'last week'; the independently established September 21 occurrence date is retained rather than redated from this relative phrase.