Authorities identified a person of interest in the disappearance of college student Sudiksha Konanki who was reported missing nearly a week ago during a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic.

Authorities have named a person of interest in their investigation of the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic. Joshua Riibe, a U.S. citizen who was vacationing in Punta Cana at the same time Konanki was visiting on spring break,

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — The man who was the last person seen with a missing 20-year-old student from Virginia is now being called a person of interest, according to a sheriff’s office in the U.S.

New surveillance video has surfaced and a "person of interest" has been named in the case of Sudiksha Konanki, the Pitt student who went missing and disappeared while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.

A person of interest has been named in the case of missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who disappeared while on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

A man who might've been the last person to see a missing University of Pittsburgh student in the Dominican Republic said he rescued her from drowning — only for her to vanish a short time later, according to a transcript of an interview he gave local authorities.

The man who last saw missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki told investigators he thought she was OK and had "taken her things and left."

Joshua Riibe, the last person seen with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, had his passport confiscated by Dominican Republic authorities as part of an ongoing investigation into her disappearance.