A university in Connecticut is mourning the death of a 20-year-old student who died Sunday after apparently choking in a pancake-eating contest.
A nursing student tried to save Caitlin Nelson, a junior who was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, when she showed signs of medical distress after eating several pancakes at the Greek Life event Thursday evening, according to Lt. Robert Kalamaras of the Fairfield Police. Officers responded within a minute of the 911 call, and Nelson was hospitalized and was in critical but stable condition that evening.
Her father, James Nelson, was a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officer who was killed while trying to rescue people trapped in the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Kalamaras said.
Her death brought an outpouring of grief from the campus community, where thousands of people attended a Mass and held an impromptu candlelight vigil outside the chapel afterward, praying and consoling one another, according to a university spokeswoman.
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