(NewsNation) — A choose within the Dominican Republic dominated that the final individual to see lacking College of Pittsburgh pupil Sudiksha Konanki is free to return house to the US.
Joshua Riibe, 22, was named as an individual of curiosity in Konanki’s March 6 disappearance. He was not charged with wrongdoing or named as a suspect.
The ruling comes as Konanki’s mother and father requested authorities to declare the 20-year-old lifeless.
“Sudiksha’s household has expressed their perception that she drowned,” Loudon County Sheriff Michael Chapman mentioned in a assertion Tuesday.
“Whereas a remaining resolution to make such a declaration rests with authorities within the Dominican Republic, we are going to assist the Konanki household in each method potential,” he added.
Authorities say {that a} good friend who was with Riibe on the resort the place Konanki went lacking stays within the Dominican Republic however didn’t say if he was being held there or if he was free to go away the nation.
