Athletic commission probes UNLV student’s death after boxing match

The Nevada State Athletic Commission is opening an probe into a UNLV student’s decease aft a foundation boxing match, authorities said Tuesday.

Nathan Valencia, 20, died a week agone from blunt unit caput trauma, the Clark County coroner’s bureau said. His death has been ruled a homicide.

Valencia participated successful the main event of a Nov. 19 foundation boxing lucifer sponsored by school-sanctioned fraternity Kappa Sigma to rise wealth for Center Ring Boxing, a northbound vale gym that trains troubled youth. The diversion committee announced its probe successful a connection from Stephen J. Cloobeck, president of the commission.

“The NSAC takes this calamity seriously, and our hearts spell retired to Mr. Valencia’s household and loved ones,” Cloobeck said successful the statement. “We volition stock further details connected the probe arsenic they go available.”

Las Vegas constabulary said Monday they reviewed the fatality and recovered “there is not accusation that determination is immoderate criminality connected the portion of the venue,” adding that the authorities diversion committee was successful complaint of “enforcement action” related to the event.

It was not instantly wide aboriginal Tuesday what the imaginable outcomes of the commission’s probe are. The Richard Harris Law Firm, which is representing Valencia’s family, antecedently issued a connection saying it is investigating the decease arsenic well.

“‘Kappa Sigma Fight Night’ is an lawsuit that has been held annually and was good known to some UNLV and the nationalist Kappa Sigma Fraternity,” the lawyers said. “We volition permission nary chromatic unturned to find however a 20-year-old ended up successful a school-sanctioned amateur combat that outgo him his life.”

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