The news of the death of a UW student overseas has some college students fearing for their classmates' safety while studying abroad.
Some say they're even re-thinking their plans to do the same.
Beau Solomon's family confirmed that his body was found in a river in Rome about one mile south of where he was last seen. He left last week to study at a university in Rome, and disappeared Thursday night after a night out with friends.
The family said his wallet was stolen and his credit card was used.
Students we spoke with say they've already had to adjust their plans to study abroad before because of terrorist attacks.
But in this case, it has at least one student saying her classmates need to be more cautious when overseas.
The word of Solomon's disappearance in Italy last week spread fast among students.
"It's really unfortunate what happened," says UW Oshkosh junior Tristan Retzlaff, as he waits for his group of friends.
Retzlaff says hearing of Solomon's death, and the criminal investigation into it, has him thinking twice about the opportunity to study abroad.
"They say it's one of the best things to do, is to go travel the world," says Retzlaff. "Now, I'm hearing about it, [and] it's... making me second guess, 'do I really want to study abroad?'"
Retzlaff says some of his friends recently came back from a semester overseas.
"[They] went and studied all over Europe," he adds.
"I went to Ireland last semester," says student Becky Wood, one of Retzlaff's friends, "I was there for four months."
The St. Norbert senior says it was a life-changing opportunity that she'd take again.
"It was absolutely amazing! It was the most eye-opening experience I've ever had," exclaims Wood.
But Wood says they almost canceled their plans after the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015.
"We had officially decided that , if any other terrorist attacks would happen, we wouldn't go," says Wood.
In this case, however, Wood says it's a different danger facing students--one that can make them fall victim to foul play.
"You don't know the culture, and the customs, and what's going on," says Wood. "When we went out, I would've never gone alone, and I would have always gone with people who I knew."
It's advice she hopes other students will take seriously.
