Northwestern Student Found Dead On Campus

Updated at 2:15 p.m. Monday.

A 20-year-old Northwestern sophomore was found dead on campus on Sunday, May 5, according to an official university e-mail sent out to students and staff.

Dmitri Teplov, a New York native who was studying in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was found dead in Pancoe Hall, at 2200 Campus Dr., according to the e-mail. The cause of death has not yet been determined, and Evanston Police and the University Police departments are both investigating the incident. 

Evanston Police Cmdr. Jason Parrott said in an e-mail that police do not believe there was foul play in the incident, and that the death appeared to be a suicide. Teplov was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Parrott. 

Speaking to Patch on Monday afternoon, a representative of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said the death had been ruled a suicide.

“On behalf of the university, I extend our condolences to Dmitri’s family and friends,” vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin wrote in the e-mail.  “We always feel deeply the loss of a member of our Northwestern community.”

Classmate Vince Cericola told the Daily Northwestern that Teplov was "very nice," tended to keep to himself and had a unique sense of humor.

“He joked around,” Cericola told the Northwestern. “He had a kind of computer guy sense of humor. He would have technology-related jokes.”