Body of missing UW student from Bellevue found in Montlake Cut | Seattle Police treating drowning as suicide

The search for a missing University of Washington student from Bellevue ended tragically over the weekend when his body was found in the Montlake Cut area south of the Seattle campus, according to the Seattle Police Department.

By Brandon Macz • February 26, 2015 4:33 pm

The search for a missing University of Washington student from Bellevue ended tragically over the weekend when his body was found in the Montlake Cut area south of the Seattle campus, according to the Seattle Police Department.

The family of 20-year-old Tan Nguyen filed a missing persons report on Feb. 11. A woman found Nguyen’s student ID, a cryptic poem and a dollar bill in a plastic bag hanging from a metal chain on a park bench on the south side of the Montlake Cut on Feb. 13, according to a Seattle Police report. The UW student’s empty backpack was found nearby.

According to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, Nguyen’s cause of death was drowning. The Seattle PD is treating the case as a suicide.