LAS CRUCES â?? The state’s medical investigator has ruled that a University of Wisconsin-Madison student found dead in Las Cruces last year committed suicide by setting himself on fire.
The body of Michael J. Mowers, 22, was discovered by a woman walking her dog on Nov. 21 in a culvert leading to a canal near Calle de Alegra, off South Main Street. His body had been burned.
He was last seen alive in Wisconsin on Nov. 12. Las Cruces police have said foul play is not suspected in Mowers’ death.