Feb 16, 2009 11:11 pm US/Eastern
Teen Found In Water After Andover Party Identified
ANDOVER (WBZ) ―
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Elizabeth Mun walked away from a sleepover party at a home on William Street in Andover in just shorts and a t-shirt early Sunday morning.
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Police removed cases of alcohol from the home where the party was held Sunday.
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The teenage girl who died after her body was found submerged in an icy creek in Andover Sunday has been identified.
The Essex County District Attorney's Office said Monday she is 16-year-old Elizabeth Mun of Wellesley.
She walked away from a sleepover party at a home on William Street in Andover in just shorts and a t-shirt early Sunday morning. Sources say Mun told her boyfriend that she was leaving and had a ride.
Investigators say her friends launched their own search for about two hours before calling police.
Mun was found in an icy creek at about 10:40 a.m. She was rushed to Children's Hospital in Boston, where she died Sunday evening.
Mun was a student at
Concord Academy.
The school released a statement describing her as "gifted student."
"The Concord Academy community continues to mourn the loss of our student. We're remembering her as a warm and imaginative young woman who was a good friend to many… Her passing leaves a void in so many facets of our community, and in our hearts."
Counselors are being made available to students, faculty and staff.
Sources tell WBZ-TV there were no parents home throughout the night of the party and underage drinking is part of the investigation.
State Police removed several cases of alcohol from the home where the sleepover was held Sunday. It is now being treated as a crime scene, but police will not comment about any possible drinking at the party.
Massachusetts has a social host responsibility law that was strengthened a few years ago to make it a crime to allow minors to drink at your home.
Attorney Richard Campbell says underage hosts, as young as 14, have faced criminal charges in similar cases.
For parents to be held responsible, he says they would have to know a party is being hosted at their home, but he also cautions parents not to use "the ostrich head in the sand" approach, what lawyers call willful blindness, to avoid facing criminal or civil charges.
Mun's family released this statement about their daughter. "Elizabeth aspired to follow her mother's footsteps by attending Brown University. She leaves behind all too early a loving family. She will be missed by her parents, her older brother, her grandparents, aunts and uncles. We ask. for your prayers at this time."
Essex District Attorney spokesman Steve O'Connell said Monday an autopsy would be conducted, though it wasn't immediately known when.
Last October, 17-year-old
Taylor Meyer died after she wandered away from an underage drinking party in the woods near the old, abandoned Norfolk airport.
An autopsy on Mun is scheduled for Tuesday, the D.A.'s office said.
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