Regardless of whether it was murder or suicide, this is so tragic

RIP

RIP So sad

I read somewhere that he had been struggling with depression and he had actually withdrew from his classes because of that.

This is so awful. I hope those journalists who mislabeled him as one of the perpetrators are happy. They ruined his life and his family's lives because of their foolishness.

This whole situation was ****ed up to begin with.
This poor kid and his family.

Figured I'd clarify some info (I'm a current Brown student):

Sunil had been missing already for about a month prior to the Boston Marathon--we all got an email from our campus safety department in mid-March saying a Brown student had been missing for a few days. From what I understand, he would've been a senior this year but had requested time off, evidently to deal with personal issues. He left his apartment very early one morning without his wallet, phone etc. and apparently left a note suggesting the worst. His family and some other people in the area spent the last few weeks searching literally everywhere for him, until his body was found on Tuesday at India Point Park.

So, he was presumed to have committed suicide for awhile already (not murdered due to the bombing fiasco). Of course I'm still completely and utterly disgusted with the scum on Reddit who started the false accusations about him (and the irresponsible media outlets that picked the story up)--I can't imagine how much more difficult that must've made all of this for his family and friends. It's a prime example of racial profiling... "someone is 'brown,' surely he must be the terrorist!" and mob mentality. Despicable.

So sad to hear about this this morning, I was really holding out on the small bit of hope he would be found alive Just earlier this week there was "lend a hand" campaign on campus to show support

If anyone's interested: http://www.browndailyherald.com/topics/sunil-tripathi/

That's... really sad RIP

I feel awful that his family had to put up with that terrorist accusation on top what they were already going through with him being missing and all. Hopefully this will allow them to slowly heal.

RIP.

Was the death recent?

This story is really sad.

RIP.

This is what I was thinking too. Or at least I hope so (as opposed to the alternative of someone killing an innocent guy). It's so sad. The family gave a classy response though. I would've been furious.

Reddit is one of the worst websites online right now. Those clowns really think theyre superheros or some ****. Aaron Shwartz got em gassed up smh.

I'm a Reddit member and yeah the members who were identifying him as the bomber ****ed up big time. This is just tragic. He wasn't killed because of the accusations tho. He was more than likely gonna be found dead after missing for a month anyways.

That's a little extreme. There's plenty of great stuff on Reddit and you can get lost for hours on there. 4Chan is way worse.

I wouldn't even pin all of the blame on Reddit tbh. Sunil's reputation was ruined by the dumbass major news outlets that picked up the story and plastered his name and picture all over the place. Sure, it's partially Reddit's fault for starting it, but most people would've had no idea who Sunil was if the media wasn't such a damn mess.