Sunil Tripathi's body found and identified
The Rhode Island medical examiner's office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month.
Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick said the body of 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi was identified on Thursday morning through a forensic dental exam. The cause of death had not been determined.
Chadwick said Tripathi's family had been notified. A message was left for his sister.
Tripathi's body was found Tuesday by members of the Brown crew team in waters off India Point Park. Relatives of Tripathi, who was from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, had been searching for him with help from the FBI and Brown students since mid-March.
His family said he had been on leave from the Ivy League school and was living with classmates in Providence.
Tripathi had been wrongly named on social media as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing earlier that month; he was never a suspect in the attack.
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