DENVER—The Denver coroner’s office confirms a University of Denver graduate student who died after being removed from an apartment complex near the DU campus was a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Chief deputy coroner Michelle Weiss-Samaras said Friday the death 23-year-old Lauren Johnson had been ruled accidental—the result of carbon monoxide toxicity.
Johnson died Jan. 5 after being taken from a third-floor unit at Josephine Place Apartments. Johnson and another woman were hospitalized.
Authorities say one of the women had called 911 saying she felt woozy.
Denver fire spokesman Lt. Phil Champagne says the carbon monoxide leaked from a flue from a boiler that had been repaired, and that whoever fixed the old flue vent cap did not attach it properly.
