Missing Washington College student found dead in Pennsylvania

Jacob Marberger, a student at Washington College on the Maryland Eastern Shore whose disappearance aroused alarm, has been found dead in Pennsylvania, the state police there said Saturday evening.
The Hamburg division of the state police said he was found at Hawk Mountain sanctuary. He died of a self-inflicted wound, the police said.


The college, in Chestertown, had shut down operations after information indicated that he was armed.

Relatives said he had been despondent over events at his college. information indicated that Marberger was upset and armed.

Police in the Philadelphia and Maryland areas were looking for 19-year-old Washington College student Jacob Marberger after his family reported him missing on Monday. The family said he came home in the middle of the night and took a rifle case, which may or may not have had the gun inside and was not responding to text messages.

The call prompted a lockdown and the school’s decision to close for the month.

Police say Marberger made no threats to harm anyone in Pennsylvania or Maryland, but Cheltenham High School, where he attended, was on lockout on Monday and Washington College was closed all week.

Authorities searched for the student, who was reported last seen in the Hamburg, Pa., area at some point Nov. 16. That was the day he reportedly was seen purchasing ammunition.

The car he was believed to be driving was also located at the sanctuary where his body was found.