The 20-year-old Texas A&M student who reportedly ingested sodium cyanide Wednesday afternoon has died, hospital officials said.

Emergency responders in hazardous materials suits responded to Rudder Plaza on the Texas A&M campus about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and took Christian Amadeus Taylor of Killeen to St. Joseph hospital in Bryan.

Taylor was admitted into the hospital emergency room after going through a decontamination process Wednesday afternoon. St. Joseph officials said Taylor died at 12:40 p.m. Friday.
"The precise cause of his death is pending,"


University Police Spokesman Lt. Allan Baron said in a statement. "A police investigation is ongoing, including awaiting results of toxicology reports.

Authorities believe Taylor may have ingested sodium cyanide Wednesday afternoon."

Taylor was a senior biochemistry major at A&M and part of The Eckleburg Project, a literary magazine.