Body found after US teen goes missing
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ITALIAN authorities were yesterday investigating the disappearance of an American student in Rome a day after he arrived in the Italian capital.
Police reported the discovery of the body of a young male in the Tiber river in Rome around noon yesterday but stressed no identification of the corpse had been made, and thus it was impossible to say if the development might be part of the case of the missing student, 19-year-old Beau Solomon from Wisconsin.
Several police officers, including from the forensics squad, were at the riverside, with media being kept from approaching the point where the body was discovered.
A statement from John Cabot University, where he is enrolled, said it was “alerted by his roommate who reported that he had lost contact with Beau around 1am on Thursday night while together at a pub in Rome and was worried when he did not see Beau at orientation” on Friday morning.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said he had just completed his first year as a personal finance major. His family said his credit cards have been used since he disappeared.
Dramatic developments involving US students, often shortly after arriving in Italy for a semester or year of study, are not infrequent. They are often surprised to learn that wine and other alcohol can be easily purchased in supermarkets and drinking often begins in early evening and lasts well past midnight.
In 2012, a US student was allegedly stabbed by his roommate, a fellow student at John Cabot University, after what police said was a night of drinking and Halloween partying. The stabbed student survived.
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