Misrach Ewunetie, a Princeton University student was found dead near university tennis courts on October 20, 2022. This happened a week after she went missing. She was last seen on October 14, after going to her dorm room in the morning. 

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Who was Misrach Ewunetie?

Misrach Ewunetie was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Princeton University. Before her death, she was last seen brushing her teeth by her roommate on Friday, October 14 at around 3 am near Scully Hall, a dormitory building on the University campus. 

Her family in Ohio reported her missing two days later when she missed her appointment for the US citizenship application she had filed earlier.  

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She was found dead on the New Jersey campus and died by suicide, the prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. 

Ewunetie’s autopsy report by the Middlesex Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined that she died from “bupropion, escitalopram and hydroxyzine toxicity,” ruling her death- a suicide, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said. 

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Bupropion, the generic label for Wellbutrin,  and escitalopram, the generic version for Lexapro are antidepressants. While Hydroxyzine is an antihistamine used to treat allergic reactions.

“Misrach’s death is an unthinkable tragedy.” Our hearts go out to her family, her friends and the many others who knew and loved her,” Princeton VP W. Rochelle Calhoun said in an email to the university community shortly after Ewunetie’s body was discovered.

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“Princeton is a close-knit community, and we mourn Misrach together,” Calhoun wrote.

Ewunetie originally belonged to Ethiopia. She was a junior sociology major at an Ivy League school. “She is the gem of the house, only daughter and the youngest,” Ewunetie’s brother Universe Ewunetie said.