Samuel Levine, 22, fell to his death while on spring break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Levine, a psychology major and member of Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Southern California, was set to graduate in June.
A 22-year-old University of Southern California student fell to his death on Tuesday while on spring break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, according to officials. Samuel Levine was a psychology major and a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He was schedule to graduate in June.
Levine reportedly fell from a sixth-floor balcony at a hotel. Mexican police said he died of severe head trauma, according to KABC.
“Our deepest sympathies are with Sam’s parents and family members, with his close friends in the Sigma Chi fraternity and around campus, and with each of you in the psychology department,” Steven A. Kay, the dean of USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said in a statement released Wednesday. “Sam touched so many of us here at USC with his talents and ambition, and we all grieve for his incredibly promising life that was tragically cut short.”
Levine was on a spring break trip in Cabo San Lucas, a popular Mexican vacation spot shown here in a file photo, when he fell to his death from a sixth-floor balcony.
“I remember him as a humble, hard-working leader who loved his teammates and playing basketball for Oak Park,” Aaron Shaw, Levine’s JV coach and the high school’s current varsity coach, told The Acorn. “More importantly he was just a great role model.”
It has been a rough week for the USC community. On Sunday, 22-year-old engineering student Xinhai Huang was killed in a two-car collision five miles from the school’s University Park Campus, according to the Daily Trojan.
