Father presses for answers in college freshman daughter’s death after fall from dorm: 'She was our world'

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A Washington authorities begetter is pressing for answers astir the probe into his 18-year-old daughter’s on-campus decease astatine a California assemblage earlier this year. 

Liz Hamel, 18, was recovered unconscious extracurricular a dorm connected the field of the University of California Santa Barbara Feb. 14 aft seemingly falling from a breezeway. She died days later. 

But what happened starring up to her decease remains a mystery. 

"Over the past fewer months, we’ve been briefed by UC Santa Barbara PD, and they've been precise benignant to us. They've been … empathetic. But, of course, since it's an ongoing investigation, they can't springiness america a tremendous magnitude of details," Alain Hamel, Liz’s father, told Fox News "America Reports" co-anchor Sandra Smith successful an interrogation Friday.

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Liz Hamel

A Washington authorities begetter is pressing for answers astir the probe into his 18-year-old daughter’s on-campus decease earlier this year.  (Alain Hamel)

Hamel, who lives successful Seattle, told Fox News his household reached retired to the assemblage this week for assistance uncovering a antheral who was with his girl the nighttime she fell. Within 24 hours, assemblage constabulary were capable to speech to the idiosyncratic of interest. 

"I deliberation it was incredibly successful. … I can't accidental capable for Santa Barbara. It was truthful fast. They truly helped america truthful overmuch to determination the probe forward," Hamel said. "I'm not the police. I americium connected the outside, but it seems similar they truly moved it forward."

"An idiosyncratic who was identified successful narration to the incidental astatine our residence hallway has been located and interviewed," UC Santa Barbara said successful a statement. "The probe is inactive ongoing, and we cannot sermon immoderate further details astatine this time. UCPD is keeping the household informed and is moving intimately with (the) Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office.

Liz Hamel

Liz Hamel died aft seemingly falling from a dorm breezeway successful February.  (Alain Hamel)

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"UCPD is committed to proceed its broad probe to question answers related to this tragic lawsuit and has been moving intimately with the territory attorney's bureau and the sheriff's bureau since the aboriginal stages of the investigation."

Hamel said helium doesn’t cognize the antheral who was with his girl and neither did his daughter’s friends. He is not a fishy successful her death. 

Hamel said, arsenic acold arsenic helium knows, they met astatine a noodle barroom that night, "and they deed it off, and it was Valentine's Day. So, I deliberation that might've had thing to bash with it. And, yeah, they were photographed unneurotic lone from a definite angle. And past they near a small aft 10:06 (p.m.). And then, to my knowledge, astatine 10:27 is erstwhile she was recovered unconscious, having fallen from that breezeway."

Liz Hamel

"She was great," Hamel said of his girl Liz. "She was our world. She's our lone child. And she was everything to us. She was a existent joy. And, you know, we were truthful fortunate to person 18 years with her. We privation we had much time."  (Alain Hamel)

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"She was great," Hamel said of his daughter. "She was our world. She's our lone child. And she was everything to us. She was a existent joy. And you know, we were truthful fortunate to person 18 years with her. We privation we had much time." 

A tipline is disposable astatine 805-335-3851 for anyone with accusation surrounding Liz's death.

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