A University student died Friday after a fatal car accident in New Orleans.
 
Ryan Russell Gibbs, a 31-year-old English graduate student, was born in Amarillo Texas on Sept. 5 1981. He played drums and percussion in his high school band before spending a summer with the Denver Blue Knights Drum Corp.
 
“The LSU family was saddened to hear about the passing of Ryan Gibbs,” said LSU Chancellor Michael Martin in a news release. “This is a great loss to the LSU community, and our hearts go out to his family, friends and everyone he touched in the English department.”
 
Read tomorrow’s print edition for more details.
 
 
 
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