April 06--A University of Iowa student from Glen Ellyn, who suffered serious injuries during a fall while studying abroad in Rome, died Sunday morning, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Andrew Mogni, 20, died at 11:25 a.m. Sunday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He had been moved there after coming back to the United States, according to The Daily Iowan, the campus newspaper at the University of Iowa.
Mogni, a third-year finance major, might have been the victim of a robbery when he suffered serious injuries Jan. 14, according to university officials. The injuries occurred shortly after he arrived for a semesterlong program at John Cabot University in Trastevere, an administrative district in Italy's capital city.
Mogni's family and a university administrator traveled to Rome, where Mogni initially received medical care.
A medical team cleared him March 20 to travel back to the Chicago area, according to the University of Iowa statement.
Mogni belonged to the school's chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity, which received an outpouring of condolences directed to its Twitter account shortly after the fraternity confirmed his death.
The fraternity's Iowa chapter announced Sunday afternoon via Twitter that a memorial service will be held on campus, but a date was yet to be finalized.
tbriscoe@tribpub.com
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