Vandals hang noose in Southeast Asian youth center

"I don't think it's a joke, I think we were sent a CLEAR message."



So this keeps happening. Over the weekend, a youth support center serving the Southeast Asian community in Providence, Rhode Island was broken into and vandalized, with a noose hung from the ceiling.

Sometime between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, someone broke into the offices of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM). According to Executive Director Sarath Suong, chairs were found stacked on top of each other, scissors and rulers arranged weirdly, all the drawers opened, two knives stabbed into a table, and a rope fashioned into a noose hanging from the ceiling.

Suong shared photos of noose on Facebook:

Confirmed: body identified as missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi

Damn. Sad news out of Rhode Island... It has been confirmed that the body recovered from the Providence River earlier this week is missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since last month: Body pulled from water in Providence ID'd as missing Brown student.

Tripathi was last seen on March 15. His body was pulled from the water Tuesday at India Point Park in Providence. The identification was confirmed by the state medical examiner through dental records. According to police, there were no signs of trauma, but the official cause of is pending further studies.

Here's his family statement, posted on the Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi Facebook page: