Exclusive | Chaotic final moments of UCLA sorority sister as family demands answers following alleged fall
The family of a UCLA sorority sister who died of a fatal fall when she allegedly plunged out of an apartment window are raising new concerns about the circumstances surrounding her death.UCLA undergrad Dayanara Nicole Urbina Ruiz, 21, died Thursday after allegedly falling from an open window at an apartment building overlooking Seattle’s iconic Burke-Gilman Trail.The King County Medical Examiner ruled Urbina Ruiz’s death an accident, finding she suffered multiple blunt force injuries after unintentionally falling from the open window of the building along the popular trail.The Phi Lambda Rho sister was “extremely” intoxicated on alcohol and running around in the street just moments before her fatal fall from the window, a friend of Ruiz said in a frantic 911 call around 9:19 p.m.The friend then attempted to take Urbina Ruiz, who was working as a summer marketing intern at Amazon Web Services, back into the safety of her apartment in the posh Trailside Seattle Apartments in the University District neighborhood.
“OUTSIDE, REPORTING PARTY’S (RP) EXTREMELY INTOX FRIEND RUNNING AROUND.RP TRYING TO GET HER BACK INSIDE TO HER APARTMENT.
SUBJ TRYING TO GET INTO PEOPLE’S VEHS.RUNNING IN THE STREET.
INTOX ON ALCOHOL.NO WPNS,” according to a police dispatcher’s notes.However, Urbina Ruiz’s family don’t believe she would have willingly gotten as intoxicated as described.“My sister was not like that.
She was on the other side of the world last year on an internship.She went to a music festival.
She had fun and like I said, she was very responsible.She’s not one to get like she described her sloppy or too drunk.
No, that’s not my sister,” Urbina Ruiz’s sister, Catherine, told The Post.Catherine said she spoke with Urbina Ruiz’s friend who was with her sister in her final moments.She said the friend revealed Urbina Ruiz started drinking around 4 p.m., and became combative when it was time to go back home.“My sister is the kind of wom...