Missing college student found dead

His body was found in a picnic area in the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Eastern Pennsylvania.

The parents of 19-year-old Jacob Marberger, a student at the school who had been asked to leave campus last month, called the school Monday morning and said their son had left their Pennsylvania home in his auto and had possibly taken a gun with him, college spokesman Michael O’Connor told 48 Hours’ Crimesider.

The campus remained closed throughout the week and later canceled classes through Thanksgiving break. The decision to close was made amid heightened concerns about campus violence.

The college is expected to reopen on November 29.

The college says counseling services will be on hand when students return to campus.

“He was not threatening anybody with it. It sounds like he was brandishing it, bragging about it”, said Sheila Bair, president of Washington College, where Marberger is a student.

Marberger remains missing. O’Connor said the teen is wanted by the Chestertown Police Department in Maryland for gun charges related to an October 9 incident at the school in which he allegedly displayed an unloaded antique pistol at his dorm while intoxicated. Kent County State’s Attorney Harris Murphy said the charges include possessing a risky weapon on school property, handgun on a person, possession of a firearm by a minor and illegal possession of ammunition.

Baker said police are maintaining a presence at the college, though there is much less concern now, because the students are not there anymore. He was kicked out of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity last week, and on Sunday he resigned his position as speaker of the senate in the college’s student government. His green Land Rover was also found at that location.