{"id":22953,"date":"2021-11-04T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=22953"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:33:02","slug":"statement-regarding-student-killed-this-afternoon-in-traffic-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/statement-regarding-student-killed-this-afternoon-in-traffic-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement regarding student killed this afternoon in traffic incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b><\/b>At approximately noon today, a Marshall University student was struck and killed by a vehicle as she crossed 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Ave. near the intersection with 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0St.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall President Jerome A. Gilbert issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe university community is devastated. Our Marshall family is very close and every one of us has been deeply affected by this afternoon\u2019s tragedy. All our prayers are\u00a0with the student\u2019s family and friends, as well as with the driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe university had a counselor at the scene this afternoon and also will be providing assistance and support to the family. Counseling services are available to our students by calling 304-696-2269.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith permission from the Governor\u2019s Office, flags on Marshall University\u2019s campus have been lowered to half-staff in the student&#8217;s memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease keep both families in your thoughts over the coming hours, days and weeks. This is a horrible loss for them and the Marshall family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The university will not be releasing any further information at this time due to federal student privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Media inquiries about the incident should be directed to the Huntington Police Department, the investigating agency.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately noon today, a Marshall University student was struck and killed by a vehicle as she crossed 3rd\u00a0Ave. near the intersection with 18th\u00a0St. Marshall President Jerome A. Gilbert issued the following statement: \u201cThe university community is devastated. Our Marshall family is very close and every one of us has been deeply affected by this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22954,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions\/22954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}