Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Memorial Set for Randallstown Teen Who Drowned on Campus
David Esan, 17, a Hampton University student in Virginia, and graduate of Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, was found in a pool after a party.
UPDATE (2:07 p.m.) David Esan played piano and performed in the choir.
The freshman pharmacy student at Hampton University in Virginia attended a pool party last week on campus, and drowned, according to WVEC-TV in Virginia.
"Rest in peace, I know you're playing in a heavenly choir," one student wrote on one of Esan's YouTube posts. The post is of him playing "I Stand in Awe of You," on piano.
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A memorial service is being held at noon Wednesday at Ogden Hall, Hampton University, according to the WVEC-TV report.
Esan began a Twitter account the day before the party, and posted encouraging words to Western Tech students about preparing for college.
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He talks about attending the pool party, studying, and about his upcoming birthday April 6.
Others planned to celebrate his birthday and others' birthdays at the upcoming College Collision event, one of his followers wrote.
And he mentions Baltimore. "The Ravens won't be the same without Ed Reed ...," he wrote.
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