TROY -- A seriously injured 20-year-old Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student who said he had been drinking was found shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday near a pool of blood on the pavement below an open third-story window of an RPI dorm, police said.

Bloody and immobile but still conscious when he was found, Kevin Descardes, 20, of Airmont, Rockland County, was taken to Albany Medical Center after he was discovered moaning and crying for help by another student, police said. The extent of his injuries was unknown late Saturday afternoon, police said.