Months earlier, in the summer of 2013, another student had come in with stab wounds in his back. (sciencenews.org)
Istamov died of multiple stab wounds at 11:40 p.m. in St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, according to the medical examiner's office. (articles.chicagotribune.com)
As reported in the New York Times, the medical examiner determined that Ciccarello died from complications of a bowel obstruction «due to ventral hernias due to remote exploratory laparotomy for treatment of stab wound of torso,» which, in English means that the operation he received in the hospital to save his life in the 1950s was a factor in the bowel obstruction that killed him in the 2010s. (rocketlawyer.com)