Student wrongly tied to Boston bombings found dead

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: USA Today

A body pulled from the water off Indian Point Park in Rhode Island has been identified as the Brown University student mistakenly linked by amateur sleuths on a social media site to the Boston bombings.

Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick said Thursday that the body of Sunil Tripathi was identified through dental records.

It was not immediately clear when Tripathi, who was last seen March 15, died. The cause of death has also not been determined.

After the April 15 bombings of the Boston Marathon, crowdsourcing groups drawing upon photos released by the FBI of a suspect erroneously reported via Reddit, a social news website, that the person in a baseball cap strongly resembled the missing student.

At one point, Tripathi's name landed on the Twitter top trends list.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/04/25/boston-bombing-social-media-student-brown-university-reddit/2112309/

[Bjorn Against]

1. Sad, but his death is probably unrelated to the bombings

Tripathi had gone missing weeks before the bombings, he was most likely dead well before the idiots tried to pin the bombing on him.

[Marrah_G]

2. So horrible for his family and friends!

[Tx4obama]

3. A copy of the statement the family posted on their FB page after the confirmation of death...

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022755029

[Clear Water WI]

4. Sad news

I feel awful for his family...I'm sure they were expecting bad news but to have their son wrongly accused as being a terrorist while they were still searching for him had to have been terrible for them.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. When a college age male disappears....

....you can mark it down, he will be found dead in a river.

[midnight]

6. I started reading about this in Wisconsin about a decade ago..

[tofuandbeer]

7. Sad

I remember seeing these claims on some FaceBook page, the Tuesday after the bombings.
Someone replied "But we aren't sure that's him."
and the replies to that were scary: it was definitely a lynch mob.

[JackInGreen]

8. If you think it was bad on Facebook

you should have seen some of the threads on several image boards out there, not only calling him as a bomber, but after that was disproven, as part of the false flag operation they were insistent is going on.....I feel a bit sick...