Student's child dies on campus

Five-month-old Kamrye Retic died in Nutt Apartments Wednesday morning of causes unknown at this time.\nThe daughter of an IU student lived in the campus apartments near the Student Recreational Sports Center and Campus View Apartments with her mother and father.\nOfficers at the IU Police Department received a call at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday morning asking for medical assistance for Retic, who was unresponsive and not breathing, said Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from the police report. An officer performed CPR on her until an Emergency Medical Technician arrived and took over.\nMinger said EMTs then advised they were unsuccessful in their attempts to resuscitate the child.\nAccording to the report, the mother and father were present at the time. Officers then called for a coroner and investigators to document an interview. Minger said the death is being investigated, but officers have not found any evidence to suggest a death of unnatural causes.\n"People often make the first assumption (when we conduct an investigation) that something illegal happened," Minger said. "Just because it was a high-priority incident, we need to make sure everything was of a natural cause."\nMonroe County Coroner David Toumey said his office scheduled an autopsy for Wednesday.\n"There is an ongoing investigation with my office and IUPD concerning the death of a family member of a student," Toumey said.\nTim Stockton, associate director for apartment housing, said he and his department will do everything they can to help the family.\n"It's just tragic really that it had to happen, especially to someone in our community," he said. "What we'll do here is continue to offer support to the mother.\n"We'll do anything we can to help."\nDick McKaig, dean of students, said he sent notes to all the mother's instructors and notified the dean of her school.\n"Obviously, we're trying to offer what support we can to the family," McKaig said. "It's a terrible tragedy. We'll do anything we can to help the family and the mother"