Two teen students died at New York University just two days apart, according to police.
Last Thursday, 19-year-old student Jacqueline Beauzile was found unconscious and unresponsive at Lipton Hall, which typically houses freshmen, cops said.
EMS responders arrived and pronounced the Hempstead, N.Y., teen dead at the scene.
Two days later, the body of 18-year-old student Doreah Salti was discovered outside the school’s Barney Building on Stuyvesant Street, which is home to the art department, police said.
Salti, of Hinsdale, Ill., was found around 7:30 p.m. unconscious with severe trauma to her body indicating she had jumped or fallen, cops said.
She was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A person close to Salti’s family disputed speculation she committed suicide, citing a pending investigation by the city’s medical examiner, and said they believed her death was an accident.
The back-to-back fatalities have nonetheless shaken students, many of who are concerned about a lack of quality mental health services at the school, where yearly tuition and board costs over $84,000.
“I get accommodations for my mental health here, but it’s almost like playing the lottery,” Chelsea Laury, a 22-year-old junior, told The Post, adding that the school’s counseling service is understaffed and its mental health chat app is rife with glitches.
“When you do get them, it’s crumbs.”
Others questioned why NYU’s leadership dragged its heels to alert the campus community about Salti’s death.
“I didn’t get any email or anything. It’s aggravating,” said a senior named Stephanie.
Since 2018, at least four NYU students have killed themselves.
During the 2003-2004 school year, at least four students jumped to their deaths.
“The death of any young person is a source of sorrow to the NYU community,” university spokesman John Beckman said, adding that the medical examiner’s investigations were pending.
The medical examiner did not respond to queries about Beauzile’s cause of death, which was first reported by Our Town.
Family for Beauzile could not be reached for comment.
