Men Head to Trial in MSU Death Case - WLNS TV 6 Lansing - Jackson | Your Local News Leader

East Lansing -- In March of this year, Michigan State University freshman Olivia Pryor was found dead in her South Hubbard Hall dorm room. Police have said alcohol appeared to have played a factor in her death.

Now, Dishon Ambrose of Detroit and Marquez Cannon of Eastpointe are charged with selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor causing death. Late Thursday afternoon, Judge David Jordan handed down the decision to send both men to trial as charged.

The charges for Cannon also include criminal sexual conduct that injured an in-capacitated victim and criminal sexual assault involving force or coercion. As for Ambrose, he picked up an accessory to a criminal sexual assault charge as requested by the prosecutor.

Thursday's witness testimony came from medical experts graphically describing the sexual assault injuries on Pryor's body.

Dr. Stephen Guertin, a pediatrics expert with Sparrow Hospital was one of those witnesses. He analyzed Pryor's autopsy pictures and said, "Frankly, (her injuries) would be more likely from non-consensual sex than sex because the incidents of injury from non-consensual sex is so much higher than the incidents of injury from consensual sex."

Cannon is being held without bond and Ambrose is being held on a $250,000 bond. Both are expected to appear in circuit court sometime next month.