Court to Review Surveillance Video of Fatal UConn Fire Call

STORRS, CT — A hearing is scheduled for Monday in a Hartford courtroom that could determine if a surveillance video from the night a University of Connecticut student was run over by a campus fire vehicle should be released to the public.

Several news outlets have requested the video.

Six members of a fraternity that hosted a party near UConn have been charged in the case.

The incident was on Oct. 16. The student killed was 19-year-old Jeffny Pally, who lived at 87 Northbrook Drive, West Hartford.

According to court documents, Pally was dropped off at her university residence by a car service, but somehow wandered out of it and wound up behind the UConn public safety complex at 1:15 a.m., when the fire department received a call about the illegal discharge of a stolen fire extinguisher.

Court papers indicate she was legally drunk and they outline lax supervision of underage attendees at the party.

Pally wound up asleep with her back against the door of a unit police described as Bay 7 at the UConn Public Safety Complex. The call required the UConn Fire Department shift commander, veteran Dana Barrow, to respond in a 2010 Chevrolet Tahoe, parked inside Bay 7, according to a police report.

The door to Bay 7 opened vertically, causing Pally to fall back onto the ground, police said.

As the vehicle exited Bay 7, the right side of the car traveled over Pally and she died as a result, police said.

At the request of the State's Attorney Office and UConn police administrators troopers from Troop C, Mansfield and the Connecticut State Police Crash Analysis Reconstruction Squad responded to the scene and assumed the investigation.

Barrow is still on administrative duty, UConn officials said.

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