May 16--The death of a 21-year-old north suburban woman who died early May 8 after plunging from a University of Illinois at Chicago building has been reclassified as an accident after initially being ruled a suicide, officials said.
The Cook County medical examiner's office had determined, following an examination May 9, that Yuliya Fedorova, of the 20500 block of Margaret Avenue in Lincolnshire, died of blunt force trauma of the head and neck from a jump from height, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but the ruling was changed "to accidental after new information came to light that was not originally provided" to the medical examiner's office investigator on the case, said office spokesman Frank Shuftan in an email.
Just after 4 a.m. May 8, crews responded to the UIC building at 1007 W. Harrison St. for reports of a woman who fell, according to a Chicago Fire Department spokesman.
Fedorova was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5:38 a.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
A spokeswoman for UIC said at the time that the woman was not affiliated with the university. The woman was inside an open-air stairwell connected to the building that is open to the public, the spokeswoman said. The stairwell leads to an outdoor green space on the UIC building.
