What a terribly sad story. Sadly, I have heard a number of similar ones, at Cornell and other schools.
My D was an RA at a SUNY. One weekend, it was very cold and snowy and although she was off duty, she opted to stay in and sleep rather than go off campus. She was sound asleep in the middle of the night when her room phone (which she had to have as an RA) rang and a voice she didn’t know told her to look out of the window. She did and saw a half naked young man lying in the snow, motionless. She called campus security and ran downstairs with the blankets from her bed, which she used to cover the young man with. The EMTs told her that he would probably have died if she hadn’t answered her phone.
She made sure that all of her brothers and her friends and residents heard that story. Due to HIPAA, she never found out what happened to the kid, whom she didn’t recognize as a resident in her dorm, and nobody ever came forward about it. This was before the passage of the Good Samaritan Law in NY, which was apparently a response to Bon Jovi’s daughter’s OD at Hamilton, so it’s fortunate for this kid that his friends “cared” enough to dump him where he might have been found instead of leaving to die in a car or a room somewhere.