Grad Student Found Dead

dA body was found at the bottom of the Fall Creek gorge at around 1:30 pm on August 14th, according to the Ithaca Police Department and eyewitnesses.

The body has been identified as Aravind Lakshmanan, a 23-year-old graduate student, according to the Ithaca Police Department.

Investigators are continuing to work to discover the cause of death.

Lakshmanan’s death is the third gorge-related death this month.

Lakshmanan was a Ph.D candidate in the field of Applied Physics. Last year Dan Pirfo ’08, then a freshman, was found dead by three individuals fishing in a spot near where this body was found.

The Ithaca Journal reported that just one week earlier a 28-year old man from California drowned after swimming in a popular gorge.