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Parents of Rio Nicholas, a 19-year-old Colorado School of Mines student who died on campus in 2001, are filing a federal lawsuit that claims school officials and campus police deliberately covered up information about their son’s death.
Rio Nicholas was found dead in a dormitory shower. Medical reports show that he had amounts of cocaine in his blood. While his death was ruled a drug overdose, other evidence suggests that the young man may have been killed elsewhere and his body taken to the shower.
The lawsuit is the culmination of the Texas based Nicholas family. Their son was an engineering major and Air Force ROTC member. On a trip home Rio Nicholas told his parents that people at the school were dangerous and he had been worried about the culture there.
The lawsuit alleges that school officials deliberately covered up evidence suggesting homicide in order to stave off criticism of the school. The civil rights complaint specifically names the Golden, CO School’s director of public safety, Richard M. Boyd, school police Sgt. Robert Allen, vice president and dean of students Harold Cheuvront and director of student life Robert Francisco.
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