911 Call Released In Death Of UNLV Student After Charity Boxing Match
Courtesy of household of Nathan Valencia
Nathan Valencia and his girlfriend, Lacey Foster, are proven in this undated picture. Valencia, 20, died at Dawn Hospital and Medical Middle on Nov. 23, days after collaborating in a charity boxing match sponsored by a UNLV fraternity.
Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021 | 6:35 p.m.
Nathan Valencia, 20, died at Dawn Hospital and Medical Middle on Nov. 23, days after collaborating in the occasion dubbed Fraternity Battle Night time. The occasion was hosted by the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and Valencia participated as a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. (Courtesy of household of Nathan Valencia)
Newly-released call audio to 911 element the moments after a UNLV student was fatally injured throughout a fraternity charity boxing occasion off campus.
The call audio, released by Clark County officers late Friday, signifies Nathan Valencia, 20, collapsed in the ring on the “Battle Night time” occasion on Nov. 19 promoted by the college’s Kappa Sigma chapter on the Sahara Occasion Middle, 800 E. Karen Ave..
Valencia was transported to the close by Dawn Hospital and Medical Middle, and succumbed to his accidents three days later.
The Clark County Coroner’s Workplace dominated Valencia’s death a murder, with the trigger of death being blunt power head trauma. A number of our bodies are investigating the incident, however Metro Police has mentioned there was nothing to point criminality on the venue’s half.
“He (Valencia) is in the ring,” a feminine caller instructed the dispatcher. “We solely have like eight folks right here in the ring. Everybody else is out. We have now nurses right here, however we’d like, like, actual medical.”
The dispatcher responded, “I perceive. They usually’re already on their means, OK? They’re coming to you guys, lights and sirens. … They’re not too removed from you guys.”
“Are you able to verify with me, is he respiration or is he not respiration?”
The caller’s reply was redacted, in addition to solutions to questions of whether or not if there was any “severe” bleeding, or if Valencia was alert.
“I’ve paramedics already on the best way,” the dispatcher mentioned. “Simply keep on the road and I’ll let you know precisely what to do subsequent. Simply be sure that to not transfer him until he’s in hazard.”
The call lasted about seven minutes and ended after the caller instructed the dispatcher that paramedics had arrived on scene. The Sahara Occasion Middle is positioned a couple of mile from Dawn.
The unidentified girl talking with the dispatcher began the call saying they wanted an ambulance straight away, and {that a} struggle had damaged out in the gang. By the point the struggle in the gang was damaged up, the caller mentioned Valencia had collapsed in the ring.
“So we’re internet hosting a struggle night time for a fraternity charity and one thing occurred, and we’re undecided what occurred,” the caller mentioned. “There was a struggle that broke out and one of the fighters, like, truly bought injured.”
The dispatcher responds, “Once you mentioned you guys are holding a struggle occasion, this wasn’t like an assault?”
“No,” the caller mentioned.
The girl calling went on to say earlier than the ambulance arrived that the occasion heart had been cleared out, aside from “individuals who’re important to the scenario.”
“He (Valencia) is the primary occasion of the struggle that occurred, the final occasion,” the caller mentioned. “If we’re being sincere, I used to be in the VIP part after which a citizen struggle form of broke out. However everybody was fantastic there.
“Then, all of a sudden, he’s on the ground.”
The caller’s statements to the dispatcher contradict claims made by Valencia’s household. On Tuesday, hours after the Nevada State Athletic Fee introduced it had opened an investigation into the occasion, attorneys representing Valencia’s household released a press release claiming no medical personnel “of any form” have been on the occasion.
Valencia’s household is being represented by the Richard Harris Regulation Agency, which couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
“We have now confirmed from a number of sources that there have been no paramedics or medical personnel of any form at this occasion. We have now additionally confirmed that contributors in years previous have been knocked unconscious and so injured they required hospital consideration,” the assertion mentioned.
“We’ll maintain these chargeable for Nathan’s death accountable and make sure that this by no means occurs to a different son, daughter or member of this neighborhood.”
UNLV introduced Wednesday it had suspended the Kappa Sigma fraternity pending an investigation by the college’s Workplace of Student Conduct. Valencia was representing the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in the primary occasion in opposition to Kappa Sigma’s Emmanuel Aleman.
Kappa Sigma’s nationwide group started a evaluate Monday of “whether or not Kappa Sigma’s inside insurance policies and requirements of conduct have been adopted” by the UNLV chapter, Kappa Sigma govt Mitchell Wilson mentioned.
“Kappa Sigma Fraternity expects all of our chapters to evolve with all relevant state and native legal guidelines,” Wilson mentioned in a press release.
A weigh-in for the struggle came about on the UNLV Student Union two days earlier than the occasion.
“Our hearts ache for Mr. Valencia’s household, associates and family members,” UNLV President Keith Whitfield mentioned in the discharge earlier this week. “We take our accountability to evaluate this tragic incident and the occasions main as much as it very critically, and we’re doing so each totally and pretty to make sure one thing like this by no means occurs once more.”
Whereas suspended, the UNLV Kappa Sigma chapter should stop all operations and actions, the college mentioned. Its standing as a registered student group has been revoked pending an final result of the college’s probe.
The college added it is going to “cooperate absolutely with another impartial critiques by state and native companies.”
A GoFundMe started by Valencia’s girlfriend, Lacey Foster, to cowl medical and funeral bills, has raised practically $66,000.
