The body found last week in a pond at an Orange park last week was identified as a missing 21-year-old Rutgers student, according to a joint statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Orange Police Department.

Yasir Williams, of East Orange, who attended Rutgers-New Brunswick, was reported missing by a family member on March 29, the office said.

His body was found in a pond in Orange Park on Saturday and the preliminary investigation by the prosecutor’s office concluded that his cause of death was drowning, police said.

The manner of death had not been determined as of Thursday evening and the investigation into his death was ongoing, the office said.

No other details were released and anyone with information was asked to call the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office tips line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC.

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