Durham Police confirm body of missing UNH student found
Police in Durham say they've positively identified a body found Friday along the shoreline in Newington as belonging to a University of New Hampshire student missing since last fall.
Durham Police say officers responded Friday at 3:29 p.m. to Newington after local police reported a resident found a body near the shoreline on Little Bay.
An autopsy performed Sunday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner positively identified the body as Alexis Garcia, a UNH student missing from Durham since Nov. 21.
'Based on the investigation by the Durham Police Department, there is no suspicion of foul play related to this case and the investigation has been closed,' Durham Deputy Police Chief David Holmstock said in a statement.
Police found Garcia's black 2021 Mercedes at the Scammell Bridge rest area off Route 4 on Nov. 26 and determined it had been parked there and unoccupied since the evening of Nov. 23.
Garcia was originally from Illinois with ties to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force ROTC.
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