Summit coroner: 22-year-old CU student dies…
Summit coroner: 22-year-old CU student dies after skiing Breckenridge
Jacob Koltun, seen here in a Facebook photo, was pronounced dead after skiing at Breckenridge on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015.
By Jesse Paul | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: February 23, 2015 at 11:56 pm | UPDATED: April 26, 2016 at 2:01 pm
The Summit County Coroner's Office is investigating the death of a 22-year-old University of Colorado student pronounced dead Monday after skiing expert terrain at Breckenridge Ski Resort.
Jacob Koltun, from California, had been skiing without a helmet on the mountain's Peak 7 before his death.
The coroner's office was alerted at about 2:30 p.m. Monday of Koltun's death at the Breckenridge Medical Center.
The coroner's office said Koltun's death appears to be an accident. Officials did not elaborate on the nature of his death or what killed him.
"No further information is available at this time," the coroner's office said in a news release.
Koltun's Facebook page shows he was a senior at the University of Colorado in Boulder and that he was originally from Alameda, Calif.
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