From People Magazine:
A college student who called 911 for help has tragically died of the flu before he was found by his rescuers.
Yeming Shen — a 28-year-old who was studying Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York — passed away from influenza on Feb. 10, the Rensselaer County Health Department said in a statement.
Officers and firefighters were sent out to a City Station apartment complex shortly after 11:05 a.m. following a garbled 911 call made by the graduate student, Troy Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE. However, authorities were unable to pinpoint the caller’s exact location and a search of the area was conducted.
Investigators spent 45 minutes looking for Shen before the search was called off, according to the Associated Press.
Shen was found by his roommate six hours later, the news agency reported.
EMTs were unable to locate the student since dispatch location technology is still unreliable. Landlines can be traced to an address but cell phone calls are harder to trace. The autopsy report showed Shen had Influenza A, a type of flu that comes on very suddenly and severely.
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