Joshua Steven Riibe, 24, has been identified as the man seen hugging and walking hand-in-hand with the 20-year-old student just hours before she vanished in the Dominican Republic.

Konanki, 20, an Indian national from Virginia, disappeared in the early hours of March 6 while on spring break with friends at the RIU Hotel & Resort in Punta Cana.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia says that St. Cloud State University (SCSU) student Joshua Riibe has been identified as potentially the last person to have seen Sudiksha Konanki. Konanki is a Loudoun County resident and student at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia named Joshua Riibe, 24, as a "person of interest" in the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student, Sudiksha Konanki.

Authorities in Virginia have identified a person of interest in connection to University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki’s mysterious disappearance last week in the Dominican Republic. Iowa resident Joshua Riibe “has been interviewed at length,

A person of interest has been named in the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of 20-year-old Sudiksha Konanki, a pre-med student at the University of Pittsburgh who went missing while vacationing with friends in the Dominican Republic.