Missing Webster native and Netflix engineer found dead

The body of a Webster native living in California was recovered from the San Francisco Bay.

Yohanes Kidane, 22, was reported missing on Aug. 15, according to the San Jose Police Department. Kidane used an Uber to travel from San Jose to San Francisco, leaving the evening of Aug. 14. He was last seen in San Francisco.

His body was spotted floating in the San Francisco Bay, northeast of the Golden Gate bridge, on Aug. 29, the Marin County Sheriff's Office announced in a news release. The U.S. Coast Guard recovered his body, which was decomposed due to prolonged exposure to the water and other elements, deputies said. The coroner later confirmed that the person recovered from the bay was Kidane.

"The cause of death was determined to be from blunt impact injuries with drowning as a significant contributing condition," according to the Marin County Sheriff's Office. "The mode of death was determined to be suicide."

Kidane's cell phone, wallet and backpack were recovered near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center on Aug. 15.

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A May graduate of Cornell University, Kidane had just started working at Netflix as a software engineer earlier this month. He moved to California in late July.

He graduated from Webster Schroeder High School in 2019, according to Webster Central School District.

Kidane's immediate family was in the Bay Area searching for him last month after Kidane reportedly told a friend about a concerning experience in a rideshare vehicle just two days before he disappeared.

Kidane’s loved ones launched an online fundraiser that garnered more than $100,000 in donations as well as a search task force.

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Yohanes Kidane, Netflix engineer, found dead in San Francisco Bay