{"id":2748,"date":"2011-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/09\/08\/delta-state-mourns-the-loss-of-two-students\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:48","slug":"delta-state-mourns-the-loss-of-two-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/09\/delta-state-mourns-the-loss-of-two-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Mourns the Loss of Two Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University family is shaken following the tragic deaths of 22-year-old Teikeia &quot;Muff&rdquo; Dorsey and 18-year-old Lashondria &quot;Pinky&quot; Rice, both Shaw natives.&nbsp; The two died this morning from injuries suffered after their vehicle was struck by a Shaw Police Department cruiser. The police officer was flown from the scene to Jackson.&nbsp; Officials are investigating the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Delta State University family expresses heartfelt condolences to the families and everyone touched by this tragedy,&rdquo; said Delta State President Dr. John M. Hilpert. &ldquo;Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to reach out to one another to find support and comfort as we grieve together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Students are encouraged to contact Counseling and Health Services at 662-846-4690 for grief counseling and support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University family is shaken following the tragic deaths of 22-year-old Teikeia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37851,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/37851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}