UCSB Pi Beta Phi killed in fall from dorm breezeway

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(This story is from February 2025, but law enforcement is still seeking information.)
https://dailynexus.com/2025-03-28/uc...mily-confirms/


https://www.independent.com/2025/05/...tudents-death/

UC Santa Barbara first-year Elizabeth “Liz” Hamel died more than two months ago, after seemingly falling from a breezeway at the San Rafael dorm. But questions surrounding her death are still unanswered.
Last Thursday, the UC Police Department stated it had located and interviewed an individual related to the incident. The announcement comes after Hamel’s family asked the community for more information on the man, who was seen with Hamel shortly before she fell.
“This public appeal to the UCSB and Santa Barbara communities was made to help identify the person who was last seen with Liz,” the Hamel family’s attorney, Tyrone Maho of Maho Prentice LLP, said in a statement on May 2. “We asked for information about what happened that evening. Fortunately, the response was absolutely amazing. Many people came forward, identifying this person, and the family is so grateful.”
Maho held a press conference on April 30, where he was joined by Hamel’s father, Alain Hamel, and the family’s private investigator, Michael Claytor, in asking the community for information. That conference, as well as fliers with the man’s photo and a tip line, prompted dozens of tips at all hours of the day and night, Claytor said.
Claytor, who answered these tip calls, said he was struck by how many people were calling in tears.
“This has really affected the community,” he told the Independent.
At the April 30 press conference, Maho said that they were not accusing anyone of wrongdoing, and were looking for more information.
Hamel, who was 18 years old at the time of her death, was born and raised in Bellevue, Washington, before heading to UCSB last fall.
“Liz was studying biology and chemistry. She wanted to be a scientist. She made friends, she joined a sorority, she has her whole life ahead of her,” the May 2 statement said.
Her father, Alain Hamel, told the Independent she “was the happiest she’d ever been” at UCSB.