NIU student from Des Plaines dies after fall from dorm's 11th floor

A 19-year-old Northern Illinois University student from Des Plaines fell to his death Saturday night from the 11th floor of a campus dormitory, officials said Monday.

DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller confirmed to the DeKalb Daily Chronicle that the student was identified as Oluwarotimi "Timi" Okedina.

NIU spokesman Joe King said Monday the student fell about 10 p.m. Saturday from the Stevenson Towers residence hall. He did not live there but at another dorm on campus, King said.

"Our police are investigating it. They have determined nothing about this possesses an immediate threat to the rest of campus," King said. "It remains an open investigation."

Eric Weldy, vice president of student affairs and enrollment management, wrote in a memo to the campus community that a window screen had been removed from the 11th-floor room before Okedina fell. There were no details on who removed it, or if investigators know who removed it, and why.

But Okedina's mother, who is a nurse, is questioning the school's account.

"There's no mark, no swelling of anything on his head, on the entire body to show that he fell from that height," Oluwatoyin Okedina told ABC 7 Chicago.

Okedina was majoring in human resource management at NIU and was expected to graduate in 2018, according to his NIU and LinkedIn profile pages. He attended Maine East High School and was a goalie on the school's soccer team, according to a 2013-14 team roster.

The university's counseling staff has been meeting with students at the counseling center on campus, as well as at dorms, King said.