![]() on April 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation published photos of the suspects believed to be involved in the bombings. By Wednesday, April 17, over 3000 people had joined the subreddit in order to crowdsource the investigation of the evidence. On April 16, 2013, one day after the bombings, Reddit users created a subreddit named r/findbostonbombers with the intention of consolidating the information surrounding the events of the bombings in an attempt to identify the culprits of the attack. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, Tripathi was one of several people misidentified as a suspect by users on social media. The family turned to social media to assist in their search for their son, uploading a video to YouTube and setting up a Facebook page. Known by his family as "Sunny", he was 22 years old at the time of his disappearance. He had left his phone and wallet behind in his student accommodation. Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University undergraduate student, had gone missing on March 16, 2013, having suspended his studies due to bouts of depression. His body was found on April 23, after the actual bombing suspects had been officially identified and apprehended. Tripathi had actually been missing for a month prior to the April 15, 2013, bombings. His disappearance received widespread media attention after he was wrongfully accused on social media as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Sunil Tripathi (Aug– March or April 2013) was an American student who went missing on March 16, 2013. Wrongly accused of being one of the perpetrators of an Apbombing of the Boston Marathon ![]()
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