Pope Francis has met with the parents of that Wisconsin college student who was found dead in Rome’s Tiber River on Monday. According to a statement from the Vatican, the pope expressed “compassion and his closeness in prayer to the Lord for the young man who died so tragically.” 19-year-old Beau Solomon was last seen early Friday at a pub popular with American students just hours after he arrived in Rome.
An Italian news agency reports that preliminary autopsy results indicated that Solomon had suffered injuries consistent with a fall. Police have detained a 40-year-old homeless man in connection with the investigation.
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