Sunil Tripathi | |
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| Status | Body found April 23, 2013 |
| Died | March 16, 2013[1] Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide by drowning |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Known for | Wrongly accused of being one of the perpetrators of an April 15, 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon |
Sunil Tripathi (died March 16, 2013) was an American student who went missing on March 16, 2013. His disappearance received widespread media attention after he was wrongfully accused on Reddit as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Tripathi had actually been missing for a month prior to the April 15, 2013, bombings. His body was found on April 23, after the actual bombing suspects had been officially identified and apprehended.
- ^ "Life, loss and the media documented in new film". Mainline Media News. December 14, 2014. Archived from the original on September 12, 2023. Retrieved September 12, 2023.