Body Confirmed as Missing Brown University Student Sunil Tripathi

Body Confirmed as Missing Brown University Student Sunil Tripathi

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There were suspicions that it was that of Sunil Tripathi, the Brown University student missing since March. During the manhunt for the Boston Marathon Bombers, there were rumors that one of them might be Tripathi, based on

On April 23, our beloved Sunil was discovered in the waters off India Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island,” the Tripathi family said Thursday, in a statement on the Facebook page they had set up to find him.

Amid the confusion in Watertown, Mass., last night, the suspect who has now been properly identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was, for a time, misidentified as Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student who disappeared March

The Rhode Island medical examiner's office is trying to determine if a body pulled from a river is missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, who was erroneously linked on social media to the Boston bombings last week. An autopsy is being