<p>Emergency</a> Crews Recover Body of Khalil King ?13 From Gorge | The Cornell Daily Sun</p>
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Rescue workers recovered the body of Khalil King 13 from the Fall Creek Gorge near the 800-block of Stewart Avenue at around 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, according to the University...
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<p>Pretty sad.</p>
<p>King was last seen around 3 a.m. on Saturday when he was walking with a friend on the upper gorge trail near the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity house.</p>
<p>The friend reported that King saw something that alarmed him and ran west, Cornell Director of Press Relations Claudia Wheatley said in an e-mail. The friend lost contact with King and attempts to call or locate him throughout [Saturday] were unsuccessful.</p>
<p>I’m hoping it’s not a suicide.</p>
<p>i doubt it’s a suicide. </p>
<p>it is such a shame to hear about a tragedy at cornell, especially in the first week of school. i hate hearing about any accidents that happen around gorges. everyone just needs to be careful around all of the trails and take the fences around them seriously. too many students have died in the gorges within the past couple of years and it is heartbreaking each and every time.</p>
<p>i hope everyone seeks the support they need. my thoughts and prayers to his family and friends at this time</p>
<p>a death already?
this is pretty shocking; maybe it’s because i’m a freshman :/</p>
<p>Another tragedy…but it does not sound like a suicide. I hope the police can figure out what happened here. This is the second death that seems unexplained. There was one last year that seemed questionable as well. My deepest sympathy to Kalil’s family, friends and to the whole Cornell community. It is a sad day when someone so young and full of life has passed away.</p>
<p>it doesnt seem a suicide. still, kind of grim news</p>
<p>oh, that’s really really sad. 
a CCer too, I take from the title.</p>
<p>was he a CCer? dont remember :(</p>
<p>yeah he was a CC’er</p>
<p>very sad news, it’s nothing short of tragic. </p>
<p>The situation as described in the article seems rather odd:
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<p>What the heck could have happened to this kid? People don’t just accidentally fall in the gorge, it s not that simple to do. Is it? The only time this happened during my years, so far as I recall, was when some drunk brain surgeon decided to do a handstand on a bridge railing. He certainly didn’t crack under the academic pressure, after what, three days of class.</p>
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<p>when alcohol is involed, it’s more often then one might think. There was that one kid in Spring of 2005 near north, and then maybe 2 or 3 years ago there was the one guy who was screwing around near the Schwartz center trail with an elevated ABV and fell in (I think he lived for some time but maybe later died? I can’t remember). </p>
<p>Regardless, it does seem very odd to react like that. It’s presumptuous, but I wonder if any drugs were involved. There isn’t a whole lot of stuff in Ithaca to alarm somebody like that at 3 AM on a weekend.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure it wasn’t a suicide. i didn’t know him well or anything, but he was really good friends with a couple of kids on my floor last year and was always around (those friends were the ones quoted in the article). he was definitely someone who liked to have a good time, and it was the night of the concert–everyone was pretty wasted. it was 3AM, was probably drunk/high and apparently was startled by something while walking along the gorge trail (which is scary enough to navigate in the dark when sober!) and probably could have easily tripped and fallen when running.</p>
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<p>Two words: Collegetown Creeper</p>
<p>Alcohol + dark + running + Gorges = trouble</p>
<p>"…could have easily tripped and fallen when running. "</p>
<p>ok forgive me. it’s been a few years, but what I seem to remember, there were definitely steep parts, but isn’t there a bunch of trees, shrubs, foliage that would normally break one’s fall, well before they actually wound up in the gorge? I can only recall now the area around the steps leading to the suspension bridge, I always thought that could be pretty dangerous. But it was also pretty clear you weren’t supposed to be there.</p>
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<p>There’s a fair amount of erosion that takes part in the area every year. That and the presumed invincibility that most college students have do not go together very well.</p>
<p>also, I think this was near Stewart Ave, not the suspension bridge.</p>
<p>This looks like a very tragic accident.</p>
<p>btw, it wasn’t the night of the concert. the concert was Saturday night had he was last seen 3 AM Saturday.
sigh…this is such a tragic way for the semester to begin. :(</p>
<p>yeah i don’t think it was by the suspension bridge, theres a path along the gorge near the stewart ave bridge and i think that might be what they were talking about, it runs from the suspension bridge area down to where rockledge is i think? i remember walking along such a path sometime last year, one of my friends said it was a shortcut, it was protected only by a wooden railing and there were a lot of leaves which made it slippery and really scary considering the steep hill it was on (and that was in the light). i’m not sure its exact location or if they are talking about the same or a similar path, but if thats the area they are talking about and he had strayed from the path and gotten lost in the dark and was running unsteadily, i think this tragic outcome is not that suprising</p>