DUBLIN, Va. – An 18-year-old Radford University student was found dead in a Virginia jail cell where he was booked hours earlier on a public intoxication charge.

Aris Eduardo Lobo-Perez was found unresponsive in his cell last Thursday morning, about eight hours after university police sent him to the New River Valley Regional Jail.

A jail statement says first aid was administered, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. No cause was given. The body was sent to the medical examiner’s office, where results are pending.

Lobo-Perez was a freshman from Culpeper, Virginia and had just recently started classes.

Virginia State Police are investigating the death but are awaiting autopsy results before moving forward.

Radford officials declined comment because the investigation is ongoing.