After a Fairfield student was found unconscious in a driveway in Westport, police and students alike have a lot of unanswered questions. The first and most important question: what will happen to David Keith, the 18-year-old freshman who remains at Norwalk Hospital after having serious head trauma?
Rumors are mounting, but authorities say that Keith is stable after suffering extensive injuries to his head and left unconscious on a neighboring driveway of the massive off-campus Fairfield freshman party.
It’s a possibility that Keith may not fully recover. Police told The Mirror that if Keith was left in the driveway a few more hours, he likely would have died. Luckily he was found by a concerned neighbor of the student who hosted the party.
That brings up another question, who would assault Keith nearly to the point of death?
Drinking too much sometimes leads to fighting, but the injuries that Keith appeared to be caused by someone fighting to kill or seriously injure, not typically the attitude of a college student. It’s safe to assume that the assailant fled knowing that was seriously injured and could die. It is very possible a Fairfield student could be the perpetrator.
Police say they have leads after conducting interviews with atleast 40 people at the party, and have suspects based on cross-referencing interviews and criminal histories of attendants. But police still face a major problem, the majority of the students at the party, almost 80 percent from this University, are refusing to talk about it.
While it is likely many of the students scattered fearing arrest, not one could come forward and at least tell the police something? Instead many have claimed Keith fell and hit his head, but police have emphatically said the injuries had to have been caused by an assault.
The party itself is also cause for concern for the University. This was a party thrown by a Fairfield freshman mainly for his classmates about six miles away from campus, in an upscale community found right off Post Road.
The most important issues right now are Keith’s condition and finding the assailant, but another question is raised again: should the drinking age be lowered? If Fairfield students did not feel the need to sneak off to a house off-campus, unsupervised and with no security, maybe this would not have happened.
If the drinking age was 18, and had a fight occurred, students would not fear punishment as a result of reporting it. Instead, students are too scared of the repercussions to help a wounded classmate.
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