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College senior, 21, who went missing a month ago after telling parents he'd rediscovered his faith found dead in a pond
A 21-year-old college student from Minnesota who went missing in late March while out for a jog has been found drowned in a pond near Rochester.
The body of William 'Harry' Hempy was discovered at around 7pm Sunday submerged in 2-3 feet of water on a piece of property owned by the company Milestone Materials in the 4600 block of East River Road Northeast.
Olmstead County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson said Hempy's body was fully clothed and there was no evidence of foul play.
Sad loss: College student William 'Harry' Hempy, 21, was found dead in a pond near Rochester, Minnesota, a month after he went missing from his parents' home
Resting place: Hempy's body was found submerged in 2-3 feet of water on a piece of property owned by the company Milestone Materials in the 4600 block of East River Road Northeast
An autopsy will be performed to determine how the 6-foot-tall, 160-pound college student died, reported Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
Hempy was a senior majoring in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who returned to Rochester in March to spend his spring break with family.
Hempy was last heard from March 25, when he called his father at around 4pm telling him he was going for a run. His athletic gear was later found at home.
He was expected to take a train back to Illinois March 29, but his AmTrak ticket was never used.
His parents reported him missing the next day, setting off a month-long search that came to a tragic end Sunday evening when a group of fishermen stumbled across Hempy’s body floating in shallow water in a pond that used to be a quarry.
William Hempy was set to graduate from college next month. His family told police their son had recently rediscovered his religious beliefs and had been eager to share them with others, reported Rochester Post Bulletin.
Mystery: It's unclear how the 21-year-old ended up in the former query after telling his father March 25 he was going for a run
Man of faith: Hempy's family told police their son had recently rediscovered his religious beliefs
It remains unknown at this time if Hempy's purported spiritual epiphany had anything to do with his death. Police do not believe he was the victim of a crime.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Hempy was employed by IBM while working on his Bachelor's degree in computer science.
Describing himself as 'dedicated' and 'hard-working,' Hempy wrote that his areas of interest were artificial intelligence and computer graphics,
During his years at John Marshal High School in Rochester, Hempy was on the school's tennis team and volunteered at Mayo Clinic.
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