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Aug 28, 2008 8:36 pm US/Eastern

Police Investigate Inner Harbor Drowning

Reporting
Richard Sher
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―

The family of a 22-year-old Montgomery County honor student wants to know how he ended up dying in the waters of Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Richard Sher reports around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Ankush Gupta and several friends stopped at Harborplace on their way home from New York. They were tired. Some stayed in the car.

Ankush and at least two friends went to rest on a bench outside the Light Street Pavilion.

Ankush said he was taking a walk. Minutes later, according to Ankush's sister Rajni, "His friends heard a scream and a splash and saw a white guy running very fast."

"They went to look in the water and saw nothing and called police. Baltimore City Fire Department divers pulled Ankush's body from the Inner Harbor about two hours later. This is being investigated as a suspicious death," said Baltimore City Police Detective Nicole Monroe.

Ankush was entering his junior year at the University of Maryland College Park after spending two years at Montgomery College.

He was on a full electrical engineering scholarship and was hoping to someday work at NASA.

"My brother is, I mean was very nice. I want to know who killed him," said another sister, Shveta Gupta.

Anyone with information please call Baltimore City Police at 410-396-2100.

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