Joshua Riibe, who was seen with Konanki before his disappearance, is being considered a person of interest in the case of the missing person, according to a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office of Loudoun County News wpxi.
Konanki traveled with five friends to Punta Cana and stayed on the River Resort River. On March 5, the group went for a walk on the beach with some boys they had met at the complex. Most of the group returned to the hotel at night, Nuggery and the Post of New York reported.
The surveillance images show Konanki walking with a man, who is believed to be Riibe, a tourist from Iowa, after 4 a.m. News ABC.
Konanki’s father speaks
“He went to the beach on March 6 in the morning at 4 a.m. Cnn. “After that, his friends returned after a while and my daughter did not return, he did not show up on the beach.”
Although Local Police believe that Konanki died by drowning, their family filed a criminal complaint to investigate other potential reasons for their disappearance, including abduction.
In the meantime, the detectives interrogated Riibe on his whereabouts with Konanki, and gave them three different stories about what happened that night, according to WPXI News.
Riibe provides researchers three different versions of what happened that night
When a surveillance photo he captured him walking back from the beach, Riibe told researchers that he returned to the coast after being ill.
In the second version, he said he felt ill and left Konanki standing in deep water from his knee.
A third version of his story stated that he fell asleep and the last he remembered was Konanki walking on the beach.
Konanki and his friends should return home because classes would resume. His friends, family and agents of the law have continued to look for it on the island.
