A body found May 9 near Verkamp's Visitor Center on the Grand Canyon's South Rim has been identified as Sandarsh Krishna, a 26-year-old Arizona State University student who was reported missing last month, officials said.
The Coconino County Medical Examiner identified the body after it was found on the South Rim, a development that turned a missing-person search into a death investigation. Krishna's cause of death has not been determined, and the case remains under investigation by the National Park Service and the medical examiner's office.
Krishna's family last heard from him on April 27, and he was reported missing the next day, April 28. He had told family members he was traveling to Las Vegas and stopping at the Grand Canyon's South Rim, and he was expected back home in Tempe for finals and a job interview.
What remains unanswered now is not where Krishna was found, but how he died. That question sits at the center of the investigation as authorities work through the final hours of a student whose trip to the Grand Canyon never ended in Tempe.
