Misrach Ewunetie was a 20-year-old student at Princeton University.
The Ohio native, Ewunetie graduated with honors from the Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School in Cleveland, Ohio in 2020.
She was also a member of the Minds Matter Cleveland program, which looks to close the education gap with high-achieving low-income students, according to CNN.
Misrach Ewunetie reportedly moved to the United States from Ethiopia in 2008 and grew up in Ohio before proceeding to New Jersey for college.
She has a brother named Universe Ewunetie. Universe described his late younger sister as “a very principled, smart girl” who is a “loving and caring person, beautiful inside and out.”
Ewunetie was last seen around 3 am on October 14, 2022, near Scully Hall, a dormitory building on the Princeton University campus.
According to reports, after her parents had not heard from her in a few days, they called the school’s department of public safety and asked them to do a wellness check, which is when they discovered she was missing.
The school immediately issued a missing person alert and intensified its search by bringing in helicopters and drones to circle the area but she remained missing.
On Thursday, October 20, police released an update on the search for Misrach.
Her body was found at about 1 p.m. on the facilities grounds, behind tennis courts, according to a statement from Mercer County prosecutor Angelo Onofri and Kenneth Strother Jr., the school’s assistance vice president for public safety.