Joseph Hunter Green’s family said the SMU sophomore had been taking two prescriptions at the time of his death due to injury.
“Hunter was taking those two prescribed medications given to him due to a painful injury that occurred on the SMU-in-Taos campus,” Hunter’s sister Brooke Baker said in an e-mail. “He had never been prescribed those medications before December.”
Baker said SMU failed to mention those facts in a statement they released with the family’s permission regarding the results of Green’s toxicology test.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner ruled Green’s death an accident, citing “mixed drug and alcohol intoxication.”
Green was found unresponsive in his dorm room at the SMU House on Jan. 22.
“Our hearts break everyday we are without Hunter,” Baker said. “We only want to honor his memory.”
