Bombing Suspects: Is Sunil Tripathi One Of The Boston Marathon Bombings Suspects?

UPDATE at 9:13 a.m.

Sunil Tripathi was wrongly identified as one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The Boston PD released an image of the suspect who like eerily similar to Sunil. Many hours later, the Boston police said both the marathon blast suspects, one dead, the other on the run, had both been identified as men from Chechnya.

Sunil Tripachi is still missing.

A reddit thread has identified one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings as Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi.

However, the FBI has yet to confirm the names of the suspect. The Boston Pd has released an image of the suspect, the image does look like Tripathi but police do not give the suspects name, they only identify him as a suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Who is the rumored suspect, Sunil Tripathi? Tripathi is a 22-year old American Indian undergraduate philosophy student who went missing from Brown University on March 16. While the FBI has been searching for Tripathi for about a month, lead investigator detective Mark Sacco said "no solid leads" have been found so far.

Tripathi is described by his family as 6'0, 130 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair.