UGA grad student found dead in his Athens apartment

By Joe Johnson

Lennaert Otemanm, a 30-year-old graduate student at the University of Georgia, was found dead in his Barnett Shoals Road apartment on the evening of November 3rd.

A native of The Netherlands, he was a PhD student in UGA’s Physics and Astronomy Department.

The discovery was made by friends who were checking after not having heard from him in a few days.

He was found deceased in the bathtub, with no obvious injuries or indications of foul play.

While police officers were on the scene, Otemanm’s roommate came downstairs and “stated that he doesn’t know what’s going on,”‘according to a police report.

An autopsy is to be conducted at the state medical examiner’s office.