Search efforts pressed in their second week Sudikakha NkonankiA college student at the University of Pittsburgh who lost the beginning of this month during the trip to the Dominican Republic Town Punta Can.
Details surrounding Carnage disappearance They have begun to appear as international investigations are underway. Here we know so far about his case.
Damage and see on the beach moving
Definity, 20, from Chantilly, Virginia, Washington, DC, Location, and visited College in Pittsburgh. You have a permanent resident in the United States and for citizenship in India. He came to the Dominican Republic for spring break on March 3 and he had vacation with a group of friends, some five women, according to the investigators and his parents.
He was lost Since Thursday, March 6, after he showed the video, three of his friends and two other American men Go look at the beach area Besides the hotel of Leri República. The video was from 4:15 in the morning, said the investigators in the Dominican Republic.
The power of the hotel may have led the visitors to take them outside, said the hotel in a statement. The previous video for the supervision showed a nonanking and one of his friends caught at Hotel Bar.
Defensers Civil Dininicana
One of the men in the sea-moving group was identified as Joshua Ribe of 22-year-old, a college college student. At the outskirts, Canon and Ribe appeared to go with their arms.
The video shows some four people back to the hotel, but under damage and Ribe live in the beach, police source said. The final obstruction of the Centant and the Wood in the water occurred at 4:50 am, according to Pouton County Sheriff Mike Chapman, who is active in Virginia involved in the investigation.
Ribe told police he and Conkey were swept away from the sea with a large wave and both fought with bad oceans. He said that underwater believed in the water but was uncertain, said a person with direct knowledge of the Ribe’s statements for US investigators.
It is thought that you are the last person who saw the damage to life.
The disappearance of Nanking is being investigated as a crime of lost people, not a criminal investigation.
The Dominican Republic’s lawyer acorner said investigators had examined that underwhelmed, but could not make it a bad play.
Chapman said “It’s hard to say” that there is a refinement of Nkonki’s disappearance there was something else without danger.
“We know that about 4:50am was the last time we had them in the water. We don’t know what happened after this,” Chapman in the depth of “CBS morning”. “And we don’t know what happened during the time that [Riibe] You must get out of the water and on time to the beach, so it really is hard to say. It is thought to think or say anything at this time. “
Conang’s family wants closure
Loudounn County Sheriff’s Office told CBS stories that the Konank’s family had asked to be announced deadThanks to gratitude for the investigations for their work, and revealed the desire to shut and followed his disappearance in the Dominican Republic.
The family provided a request by writing to Sheriff’s Office, speaking at spokesman Thomas Julia. Julia said the family was making a similar request with the Dominican authorities.
Comnank’s family did not immediately respond to the request for comment. CBS News has learned that their written application refers to the cooperation of Ribe and investigators and the lack of evidence collected until now that would include the disappearance of Nank.
Chapman said the family revealed their belief that he did.
“While the final decision to make such an announcement rested with the authorities in the Dominican Republic, we will support the Chonance family in every way we continue to review the test of all the investigations,” he said.
Ribe faces questions, you say you are cooperative
Ré has been in Punta Cana for asking that investigations are underway.
Authorities were taken by Ribe Passport and is suspended from a hotel with a police officer wherever they traveled, according to the law firm representing him, Guzmán Ariza. Yeni Berenice Reyneo, Dominican lawyer Reminican Attolner investigated questions, Guzmán Arizon’s lawyers. Ré’s release was good on Tuesday, after his lawyers forceed legal documents in his freedom given to the absence of any criminal offense.
Ribe, and his parents, Tina and Albert Gribe
“Above all, we wish to contribute to the search effort and uncertainty that they passed and shared the hope that the Sudiksha will soon be available,” said the statement. “Joshua Ribe is very worried about her disappearance and fully participate in the demands and clarity of truth from the beginning.”
Chapman told “CBS in the morning” Ribi “to arrive the most” Sheriff investigators at the Dominican Republic to speak, and “did not question what questions we drop.”
Chapman saw that “nothing would make us feel that something was wrong from Joshua.”
Initially from Iowa, Risbe is a college official in the St. Cloud State University Eninnesota, where he pursues the surface.
His family on their statement described him as “the beloved Son, Brother and Friend, known about his kind environment, comed to the ridiculous and devotion of his community. ”
They also share concerns about “illegal conditions” of his detention at Punta Cana, where, “he was slaughtered with wide questions outside Wednesday, March 12.” The family kept a lawyer “to establish legal acts to ensure his safety and protection of his rights in the process, according to the statement.
To strengthen search attempts
More than 300 police officers and other officials, with support from FBI, they are looking for air, sea and land to find him, said Dominican President Luis Abinader. Politican Republic National police on Thursday said he collected “a small level” commission to predict, and Interpol has He has issued a worldwide warning on the request for investigators.
“We are worried,” Abinader said on the news conference on March 10. All government agencies searching … because the latest details of them, when he said in the book, where the bishwed, had been in. “
The Dominican Republic National Police said in Statement of March 11 that “they were talking to the people aimed at and being addressed to the victim’s approach during his disappearance.” The investigators say that people include “Hotel employees where the Center and his friends live there, aimed to gather details to combine his movement, interacting, and other relevant information of the investigation.”
Anna Schecter,