Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little offered condolences Tuesday to the family of a 21-year-old student who died last month.

Elijah Taylor, a junior from Solomon and human biology major, died Dec. 22 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita one day after police said he ran in front of a vehicle on Interstate 135.

“My heart goes out to the family and friends of Elijah Taylor. On behalf of the entire KU community, I offer the deepest condolences,” Gray-Little said in a statement.

Capt. Mike Sweeney, a Salina police spokesman, said Tuesday that investigators were still awaiting toxicology results as part of an autopsy performed by the coroner in Sedgwick County.

Sweeney said officers determined Taylor was injured when he ran toward and struck a southbound vehicle just after midnight Dec. 21. Sweeney said Taylor had a small amount of a substance in his possession called “bath salts,” which can be used as a recreational drug if ingested.

“We’re just waiting on results of the toxicology tests to see if there are any foreign substances that may have contributed to his behavior,” Sweeney said.

The day Taylor died Salina police sent out a public warning about certain potpourri and bath salt substances that contain Methylene Dioxy Pyrovalerone, or MDPV, and said the compound was “very similar to methamphetamine and it is ingested in the same manner as methamphetamine or cocaine.”

“Depending on the mixture, the strength of these clandestine drugs range from a weak to an extremely high potency. The effects the mixtures have on the person ingesting the compounds vary drastically,” according to the warning statement.

Sweeney said the items can typically be purchased at stores or shops that sell incense.

A coroner’s spokeswoman in Wichita Tuesday morning said Taylor’s autopsy was pending because toxicology tests can take months to complete.