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Brown University student from S. Korea dies after jumping off campus building

April 1, 2015
(Courtesy of Albany NY via Creative Commons License)

(Courtesy of Albany NY via Creative Commons License)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Brown University graduate student from South Korea has died after jumping from the 12th floor of a campus building.

Police officials tell the Providence Journal that the 25-year-old student’s death Tuesday afternoon was a suicide. University spokesman Mark Nickel says the student plunged from the Sciences Library building.

Brown President Christina Paxson identified him in a statement on the university’s website as Hyoun Ju Sohn, a first-year physics doctoral student from South Korea. She said the university is “deeply saddened” by his death.

Paxson said Sohn had “glowing evaluations” as a teaching assistant at Brown. She said he graduated in 2013 from Columbia University.

A vigil was held Tuesday night outside the campus center, and smaller meetings were held for students and faculty. Paxson said counseling will be available.