"It's the intent of the university, in the future, to prosecute any trespassers to the fullest extent of state law, and that students will be subject to the very most astringent administrative sanctions," university spokesman Sid Salter verbalized at a news conference on the Starkville campus. Salter verbally expressed that Andrew Scott Demboski fell through the roof of the towering scoreboard at the south terminus of MSU's Davis Wade Stadium around 1:30 a.m. Saturday after he and two fellow students entered the stadium by climbing over a locked fence. Rescuers struggled to extract the Ocean Springs student from where he fell inside the scoreboard, because it was too high for the ladder on a Starkville fire truck. They eventually made an aperture in the structure's side and lowered him to the ground in a basket by pulley. Emergency personnel were unable to stabilize the junior environmental economics and management major, and he died afore 3 a.m. while a medical helicopter waited nearby.
A 2013 post on an MSU Internet fan sports site described how to reach the scoreboard's roof through a door and a series of ladders, but Salter verbally expressed MSU has not yet found any attested reports of other climbers in 2015 or 2016. He verbalized university officials aren't sure whether the door to the scoreboard was locked or not, verbalizing MSU relied on the locked exterior fence. "That facility is locked for a reason," Salter verbalized. "There are a lot places in there in the dark where you can get hurt."
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