UNLV student’s boxing death ruled a homicide

A UNLV student’s decease aft a foundation boxing lucifer has been ruled a homicide, the Clark County Coroner’s bureau said Monday.

Nathan Valencia, 20, died past week of blunt unit caput trauma, the coroner’s bureau said.

Valencia participated successful the main lawsuit of a foundation boxing match sponsored by school-sanctioned fraternity Kappa Sigma to rise wealth for Center Ring Boxing, a northbound vale gym that trains troubled youth.

His household released a connection past week done their attorneys, Lasso and Ryan Zimmer of the Richard Harris Law Firm, which specializes successful idiosyncratic wounded and wrongful decease litigation.

“Our preliminary probe reveals mistakes were made and information precautions overlooked. We volition beryllium completing a afloat probe to find however UNLV and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity could let and beforehand an lawsuit similar this to instrumentality place,” the connection read. “College students should not beryllium placed successful a concern wherever they are pitted against each different for combat. ‘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. We volition permission nary chromatic unturned to find however a 20 twelvemonth aged ended up successful a school-sanctioned amateur combat that outgo him his life.”

Valencia, a inferior astatine the university, was studying kinesiology astatine the clip of his death, according to UNLV officials.

A Metropolitan Police Department connection released Monday said “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.

“The Nevada Athletic Commission is the governing assemblage successful the authorities of Nevada for each unarmed combat events and promoters associated with unarmed combat,” constabulary said. “Any enforcement enactment for the promoter oregon participants should travel from their office.”

The diversion committee did not respond to requests for comment.

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