The Vestal Police Department has ruled that the alleged stabbing of a former male Binghamton University student, was in fact self-inflicted.
“The investigation is concluded,” Lt. John Taylor of the Vestal Police Department said Thursday when contacted for comment.
The former student, of Chestnut Street in Binghamton, was found in a wooded area of Brooks Avenue in the town of Vestal on Wednesday, Aug. 27, with multiple stab wounds.
According to a Press & Sun-Bulletin report, a local woman was led to the former student, who had wounds to his neck and arm, with the help of her dog. He reportedly told the woman that someone was trying to kill him, and that the attacker was still in the area.
The woman called 911 and the former student was transported to Wilson Memorial Hospital.
A hospital spokesperson who preferred to remain anonymous confirmed Thursday that he is still a patient, and in fair condition.
According to his housemate, Jan DeAngelo, the former student transcribed the incident to him because he was unable to speak because of injuries. DeAngelo told Pipe Dream Monday, Sept. 1, that the former student said he had been on a break at work at Chuck E. Cheese’s on Vestal Parkway East when two men tried to throw him in the trunk of a car. The men then stabbed him and threw him down the hill, DeAngelo said.
Doctors said that he should regain his voice, DeAngelo added.
The former student was a computer science major who was taking a year off from school, but planned to return to BU, his housemate said.
A previous version of this article was published containing the identity of the former student.