When an East Carolina University student lost her parents in a double-homicide and another student was killed in a motorcycle wreck earlier this month, counselors at the university rallied to help.

The ECU Center for Counseling and Student Development came to the aid of students after Whitley Morgan French, a 19-year-old freshman, was injured during a Feb. 4 Reidsville home invasion that took the lives of her parents, and 21-year-old student Cameron Adrian Griffin died Feb. 5 in an early morning motorcycle crash in Greenville.

In the event of such tragedies, the university contacts a student or a student’s family to check in and also alert them of available resources, including the counseling center, Matt Dwyer, licensed psychologist and director of the center, said.

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