A missing software engineer who recently started working for Netflix was found floating in San Francisco Bay last week, authorities said.
Yohanes Kidane, 22, was badly decomposed when he was pulled out of the Golden Gate Bridge waters early Tuesday.
Marin County Sheriff’s Office said that a boat spotted the engineer’s body and alerted the Coast Guard. Kidane’s death was ruled a suicide.
The victim was last seen alive on Aug. 14 leaving his San Jose apartment in an Uber. His disappearance came weeks after he moved from New York to San Francisco to work for Netflix.
His body exhibited “advanced decomposition, prolonged exposure to the aquatic environment, and appreciable depredation,” the sheriff’s office revealed.
Identifying Kidane’s remains proved complicated since he had no form of identification on him. His cause of death was determined as a combination of blunt impact injuries and drowning.
The Cornell University grad left all his belongings near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center. Detectives said that he spent his last night at the bridge.
A friend of Kidane revealed that the young engineer had a disturbing encounter with a rideshare driver just two days before his disappearance.
“We want to take him home. I need my son, I need my son,” Kidane’s mom told reporters last month.
“He’s a good man who has a bright future, very loving to his family.”
