CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - The Middlesex District Attorney’s office has released the name of the teenager who drowned in the Charles River in Cambridge on Friday night.
Tyler Greene, 18 of Georgia, has been identified as the young man who died following what investigators believe was an accidental drowning.
Police responded to a report that a male had gone into the water from Weeks Bridge in Cambridge shortly before 9 p.m. on Friday.
Witnesses said he came up with his arms flailing, and went back underwater.
Divers found his body at the bottom of the river 20 minutes later.
Greene was transported to Beth Israel, where he was later pronounced dead.
According to investigators, Greene was attending summer school at Harvard.
Harvard Summer School Dean Sandra Naddaff released the following statement:
We realize how very upsetting this sad news can be even to those who did not know Tyler personally. We are all here to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out to your proctor or Assistant Dean or any member of the Harvard summer staff if you wish to talk. Mental health counselors and members of the clergy will be present to support us. Our thoughts and prayers are with Tyler’s family and friends in this difficult time.
His mother said Tyler was the “man of the family”.
“Tyler, he was my rock,” Leonie Polly Grant said. “My daughter has special needs, but I’m a single parent.”
Grant said she and her son would call and email each other almost every day. She also said he had been posting a lot of pictures on Facebook recently with his friends.
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