Kentucky Christian College Student Was Strangled to Death, Coroner Finds
A Kentucky college student who died after being found unresponsive in his dorm room over the weekend was strangled to death, the local coroner announced.
Police and emergency medical personnel were dispatched to the campus of Campbellsville University, a private Christian school about 85 miles south of Louisville, at 12:43 a.m. Saturday morning, Taylor County Coroner Daniel T. Cook said in a statement on Monday. There, they discovered 18-year-old Josiah Malachi Kilman, a Columbia Falls, Montana, native, unconscious and not breathing, according to Cook. He was rushed to Taylor Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Cook said.
Preliminary autopsy results “show that the cause of death for Kilman was Asphyxia by Manual Strangulation,” according to Cook’s statement.