The body of missing Cal State student Praveen Galla (below) was found floating about a 1000 feet from a Newport Beach pier this week.
The 23-year-old disappeared ten days ago, allegedly after taking an Uber taxi from Fullerton to his college campus.
Galla's university officially classified him a missing persons the next day when his roommates reported that they couldn't locate him.
"It is not like Galla to not return home," the group also informed the Fullerton Police Department.
Investigators, however, stated the missing college student
"was depressed lately."
They also said Praveen Galla sent a friend a cellphone message around the same time claiming he had "checked into" a
hotel in the Newport Beach area.
On Tuesday morning, lifeguards in Huntington Beach spotted Galla dead in the water, but the condition of his remains or the cause and manner of death hasn't been disclosed yet.
An admin for the Orange County Coroner's Office posted on their website only that “the decedent was found in the ocean.”
The young man's autopsy results were still pending at the time of Tuesday's confirmation that his corpse had been recovered and formally identified.
The reason Praveen Galla went to the shore instead of to school is also unknown.
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