WESTON, Fla. – A University of Florida student from Weston died in a fall from an apartment building in Gainesville.
Police said Chance Wolf, 20, fell from the sixth floor of Social 28, an apartment building just off campus, about 2 a.m. Sunday.
First responders found the journalism student unconscious and bleeding. Wolf was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Sofia Sayaf, a student and resident at the apartment building, was in shock.
"They unloaded the stretcher and then it was probably like 15 or 20 minutes before they actually brought him out," she said.
Police said surveillance video shows Wolf walking down a hallway in the moments before his fatal fall.
Wolf graduated from Cypress Bay High School, where he was a standout athlete on the ice hockey team, and where his brother is a current student. He went on to play for the club team at Florida. His last game was against the University of Miami.
The Cypress Bay Hockey team expressed their sorrow on Twitter Monday, where they said Wolf's younger brother Trace would play the final game of the season for his brother Monday night.
"Today we lost our brother Chance Wolf," the team tweeted. "We play today for him. Thoughts and prayers out to the Wolf family."
Friends and family turned to social media to offer their condolences, posting photographs in remembrance of Wolf.
Jake Levine, one of Wolf's closest friends, told Local 10 News in a Facebook message that Wolf "was an amazing person to be around. He made everyone that was friends with him feel like they were one of his closest friends, and he always knew how to make people laugh."
His mother also released a statement later on Monday that said in part, "He was the sweetest boy who grew into an amazing young man. He loved his family and being with his millions of friends."
Police said they are still investigating the incident. Toxicology results are pending.