A central Ohio couple is pressing legal action against a university over the 2008 suicide of their son.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the wrongful-death lawsuit charges that Wright State University campus officers failed in their duty to protect the student from harm. The suit filed by Michael and Lisa Conner of Plain City is before the Ohio Court of Claims.

They say one of their son Nathan's roommates had called campus police after Nathan threatened to kill himself. Court documents show officers responded, but concluded that he wasn't suicidal.

Soon after they left, the 20-year-old student wrote a suicide note, placed a bag over his head and inhaled helium until he died.
Wright State denies wrongdoing, says officers acted appropriately, and that Conner was responsible for his death.