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Body Found in Harlem River Identified as Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi

By Carla Zanoni | September 30, 2010 3:23pm | Updated on October 1, 2010 6:16am

By Carla Zanoni

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

INWOOD — A body found in the Harlem River Wednesday afternoon was positively identified as Tyler Clementi on Thursday, according to the medical examiner.

The Rutgers freshman committed suicide on Sept. 22 after learning that a classmate had broadcast him during an intimate act with a man without his consent.

The death was ruled a suicide by drowning, said the medical examiner.

The New York Police Department's Harbor Unit responded to reports of a floating body in the water along Inwood Hill Park yesterday and pulled the body from the water at the Columbia University pier at Baker Field, near the Broadway Bridge.

Several Inwood residents reported seeing the body floating along the water.

Tyler Clementi's body was found in the Hudson River after he apparently jumped off the George Washington Bridge.
Tyler Clementi's body was found in the Hudson River after he apparently jumped off the George Washington Bridge.
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Inwood resident Jim Swimm saw something floating in the water while walking through the forest in Inwood Hill Park and was startled to learn that it was indeed a body.

“We joked that it was a body, but once we came down the hill we saw that it really was,” Swimm, 39, said.

Twitter was ablaze with speculation that the body was that of 18-year-old Clementi, as people posted photos of the scene where the body was kept well after 4 p.m.

A Facebook tribute page to Clementi currently has more than 25,000 followers.

Clementi posted a Facebook message moments before leaping to his death from the George Washington Bridge, writing "Jumping off the gw bridge. Sorry," reports said.

Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, and Rutgers freshman Molly Wei, 18, were arrested this week on invasion of privacy charges, the New York Post reported.

Ravi was arrested on Tuesday and released on $25,000 bail, while Wei was arrested Monday and released without bail.