Given the recent spate of deaths and lost limbs involving the combination of alcohol and the “Polar Vortex”, it is not surprising that drinking may be a contributing factor in the tragic death of an Ohio college senior.

A popular Ohio college senior has frozen to death after he fell asleep outside near his school in Granville, where temperatures dropped to just 4 degrees on the weekend.

The body of David Hallman III, 21, was discovered by Denison University officials outside a garage in a condo complex at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday after an intensive search.

The Erie, Pennsylvania, native was last seen leaving downtown Granville restaurant, Brews Cafe, around 2 a.m. Saturday.

His father reported him missing after he wouldn’t answer his cell phone and failed to meet his girlfriend at noon. This sparked the door-to-door search, which involved police, firefighters and the university’s faculty and students.

Alcohol is suspected as being a factor in the case, according to a Granville police statement.

‘David was located Saturday night across the street from the Granville Golf Course, where it appears he had fallen asleep and then succumbed to hypothermia,’ vice president for student development Laurel Kennedy wrote in a memo to the Denison community.

Hallman was a history major who was well-known on the small liberal-arts campus.

‘David was a member of the men’s swimming and diving team for his first three years and was very close to that group,’ Kennedy added.

He was due to compete this week in the North Coast Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championship meet on Wednesday through Saturday at Denison.

During the search, residents were handed photos of the young man and asked to check their garages and sheds – anywhere he may have sought shelter from the cold, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

A police helicopter later circled the village looking for the student.

When he went missing, he was wearing a black North Face jacket, a navy blue dress shirt and blue jeans, according to a Granville police alert. He was not wearing a heavy coat. A staff member at Brews Cafe later told 10TV News he left without it.

At 10:34 p.m., police received a call about a ‘man down,’ after he had been located by a woman just a half mile from where he was last seen and in the opposite direction of the Denison campus, on a similar-looking hill.

‘I believe we have found the missing student… he’s lying on the, we haven’t gone up to him he’s not moving, he’s lying face down,’ she told 11 dispatchers.