NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Students at Rutgers University in New Jersey left flowers Friday at a memorial for Tyler Clementi, who killed himself a month into his freshman year.
The 18-year-old jumped from the George Washington Bridge last week after his roommate and another student transmitted a live Webcast of Clementi and another man having sex. Officials announced Thursday that a body pulled from the Hudson River by New York Harbor Police had been identified as Clementi, WCBS-TV, New York, reported.
Clementi, an accomplished violinist from Ridgewood, N.J., rehearsed Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique -- about a despairing artist who takes a hallucinogenic drug -- with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra Sept. 22, a few hours before his death, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Kynan Johns, the orchestra's director, told him he had been accepted for private lessons.
"It just breaks your heart when someone that talented feels they have no other way out," Johns said.
The university has planned a candlelight vigil for Sunday. Students left cards and flowers at a memorial near the student center in New Brunswick Friday evening.
Dharun Ravi, Clementi's roommate, and Molly Wei, both 18 and both from Plainsboro, N.J., have been charged with invasion of privacy. Prosecutors said Thursday they are considering more serious charges, WCBS reported.
