The Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Police Department closed an almost two-month investigation Tuesday into the death of the coordinator of Graduate Student Services for the University’s music department.The death of Lynea Sprung Hambrice, a 36-year-old Baton Rouge resident, was determined to be accidental, said Sgt. Christie Wood, Coeur d’Alene PD.Hambrice died July 30 after falling from the 12th-floor balcony of the Coeur d’Alene Resort and landing on the deck of the main floor of the resort. She sustained blunt-force trauma to her body on impact, Wood said.Ian James, her 38-year-old boyfriend and a Baton Rouge resident, had checked into the resort with Hambrice on July 29, and the couple planned to stay together for four days. James’ 20-year high school reunion was that weekend.James was cooperative with law enforcement and is not considered a person of interest in the case, and no criminal charges are pending against him, Wood said.James made a frantic call to the Coeur d’Alene PD around 12:30 a.m. following the incident. During the call, James told the dispatcher he thought Hambrice had willingly jumped from the balcony.”She was really mad at me, yelling and screaming and telling me she wanted to kill herself,” James said in a recording of the call posted on the Spokesman-Review’s Web site.James said he and Hambrice went upstairs with a bottle of wine earlier in the evening. Hambrice had a blood alcohol content of 0.23 grams percent at the time of her death.The dispatcher stayed on the line with a distraught James for more than seven minutes before police arrived.Wood said James voluntarily submitted to a polygraph test, and his statements were determined to be truthful.James was arrested Nov. 20, 2008, and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count of aggravated second-degree battery for allegedly hitting Hambrice in the head with a bottle of alcohol during an argument, according to records from the Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office.Those charges were dismissed Dec. 16, 2008, at Hambrice’s request. Since her death, the Lynea Sprung Hambrice Scholarship for the School of Music has been set up to honor her memory. The scholarship is regulated by the LSU Foundation.Hambrice was a respected singer and told colleagues she loved working with University graduate students, according to Laurence Kaptain, College of Music and Dramatic Arts dean.”She told me in our one meeting before this happened that she felt she had found the perfect job,” Kaptain said. “Speaking for her colleagues and our students, it’s impossible for us to make sense of her bright star being extinguished so suddenly.”- – – -Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]