{"id":379822,"date":"2026-08-24T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379822\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:42:12","slug":"alabama-state-identifies-student-who-died-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379822\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama State identifies student who died over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONTGOMERY, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\">WSFA<\/a>) &#8211; Alabama State University President Quinton Ross Jr. is releasing the name of a student who died over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ross said Ava Walters, a second-year Health Information Management major from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, died following \u201can incident\u201d at an off-campus university facility on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The university said emergency medical personnel responded to an incident and pronounced Walters deceased. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Details on the incident were not clear. The investigation has been turned over to the Montgomery Police Department\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MPD has confirmed only that it\u2019s investigating after officers responded to the1600 block of Interstate Park Drive where they found a woman who was deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The university said its thoughts and prayers are with the student\u2019s family and loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wsfa-12-news\/id449733109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wsfa&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSFA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) &#8211; Alabama State University President Quinton Ross Jr. is releasing the name of a student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[68494,249,251,250,152488,68493,47201,152487],"class_list":["post-379822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-alabama-state-university","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-student-death","tag-wfsa","tag-wsfa","tag-wsfa-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}