St. Paul police investigate teen's death after drinking party

Last update: November 9, 2009 - 11:55 PM

St. Paul police are investigating the death of a Como Park High School freshman who was taken home by friends early Sunday after a drinking party the night before.

Bee Vue, 15, may have been drunk, according to descriptions provided to police.

Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Schnell said blood alcohol and other test results weren't yet known. The Ramsey County medical examiner's office was working to determine how Vue died. At 5:19 a.m. Sunday, officers and paramedics were called. They found Vue unresponsive in his bedroom, where he was pronounced dead.

During a subsequent investigation, police learned that Vue had been at a party drinking alcohol, and that friends and acquaintances later took him to his family's home in the 1000 block of Norton Street.

Vue was put in his bedroom, Schnell said, and remained there until being discovered just before police were called.

Howie Padilla, a spokesman for the St. Paul public schools, said Monday that Vue was involved in the high school's U.S. Army JROTC program. On Monday, the school made grief counselors available, and also sent a letter home to families saying a student had died over the weekend, Padilla said.

Schnell said investigators spoke with some of the people who took Vue home and that witnesses were being cooperative. Police were seeking more information about Vue and whom he was with Saturday night. Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide unit at 651-266-5650.

ANTHONY LONETREE

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