Kevin Pravia, 19, a student at Pace University was found dead on Wednesday. Investigators are searching for the reason of the apparent murder and for the responsible. Pravia went to a party in Brooklyn on Saturday and he returned home at about 5:30 a.m.

The people who saw the young student that night said that the boy seemed intoxicated and they had to help him take a cab. Until now, the driver of the cab couldn’t be found. The police discovered that Pravia’s laptop and cell phone were missing from his apartment, but it seems he had called a lot of friends after he had taken the cab.

Ellen Borakove, a spokesman for the medical examiner’s office said that the autopsy couldn’t lead to any evidence.

The 19-year-old had moved into an apartment on 239 West 15th Street, on top of a fifth-floor walk-up, just a few weeks ago and he used to share it with a roommate. The roommate seemed to have left the town on Friday and returned to Chelsea on Sunday night.

The woman who was sharing the apartment with Pravia found him dead on his bed. He was wearing a T-shirt and only underwear. The police didn’t reveal the name of the woman.

She told the police that she had found the front door closed but unlocked when she had arrived home. Still, there were no signs that the apartment had been broken into.

Chris Cory, a Pace University spokesman, said that Pravia was a very good student at the Pace University Lubin School of Business. The boy was from Massachusetts and was a member of the school’s Nordic skiing team.