One report said her hands had swelled to three times their normal size, with the skin splitting.
Snow tracks showed she perhaps attempted to get into a car (maybe when she couldn't open the possibly locked house door?). She was found on a neighbors porch, so she might've walked to the wrong house. Too bad her ride didn't/couldn't make sure she got into her (own) house.
The man who dropped her off told police that Lommel had "no more than usual" when it came to drinks that night. "Just like a normal party chick," the report read when talking about the driver's observations. "She wasn't wasted. She could talk. And she wasn't falling-down drunk."
Also, she apparently wasn't wearing a heavy coat or gloves.
So sad. Prayers up for Alyssa.
The report said Lommel, a UMD student, was out with friends the night before and told three men she wanted to be home around midnight. The three men picked her up from a house party between 11:30 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. and dropped her off at her house, but left before they could see her enter the house. One of the men told police she had been drinking, but she hadn’t been drinking any more than usual and she didn’t show signs of intoxication. Her friends told police she “wasn’t falling down drunk.”
In the report, police were able to track a tweet Lommel put on Twitter earlier that day, around 2:30 p.m. which stated, “Yum Yum 10th shot of tequila.” Earlier that night, the report said Lommel and her friends were picked up and taken to a nearby house to play drinking games.
Lommel’s roommates told police she told them that she was having some “boy troubles” and was “going to get very drunk that night,” according to the report.
The police report indicates Lommel had been drinking for about six hours before she was dropped off.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/12/11/police-college-student-found-on-porch-had-been-drinking/
I keep wondering how this girl must have felt/reacted when she woke up with her limbs in such a terrible condition. It’s very hard to think about.