By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The death of a Black college student whose body was found hanging from a tree on a university campus in Mississippi this week was ruled a suicide after an autopsy, police said in a statement on Thursday.

Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was found dead early on Monday near the pickleball courts on Delta State University’s campus in Cleveland, Mississippi, according to officials.

Civil rights advocates had called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the death while noting Mississippi’s history of lynching and racially motivated violence in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Authorities and investigators had previously said there was no evidence of foul play. The local coroner’s office said earlier this week there was no evidence to suggest Reed

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