BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The man who was with missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer in the hours before her disappearance has no memory of their last moments, local newspaper The Journal News reported Thursday.
Fellow college student Corey Rossman, Spierer’s companion early Friday, was punched in the face after the two returned to her apartment building, Smallwood Plaza, his lawyer told the newspaper.
Former Monroe County District Attorney Carl Salzmann said, “At Smallwood, someone confronted them. He got punched in the face. He has no memory of that, or of the 15 minutes leading to that moment.”
He added, “The first memory he has is the next morning when he wakes up in his bed.” The lawyer added that several people had backed up Rossman’s version of events.
Police said Spierer, 20, was partying with the student — who they have not identified — at a nearby bar and that the two were seen on videotape returning to her residence about 2:30am local time Friday, before leaving 10 minutes later.
She was last seen walking alone barefoot from a friend’s Bloomington, Ind., apartment at around 4:30am local time.
Salzmann said Rossman was not the last one to see Spierer that morning and three or four others saw her after Rossman.
Bloomington police have interviewed several “persons of interest” but investigators still have no suspects.
Video footage from security cameras at Lauren Spierer’s apartment building, which took police four days to obtain, show her and several men in an argument that morning.