“Anybody who knows Gaurav loved him, and knew he was the boy with the biggest smile and the biggest hug,” Madan, who is in the Bahamas with the family, said in an interview. “He was a good kid, he was the perfect son.”

A Massachusetts university student about to graduate will be honored at the upcoming graduation ceremony, less than a week after he died from a fall while in the Bahamas.

The student, later identified by his school, Bentley University, as Gaurav Jaisingh, was in a hotel room with other roommates when it was “reported that he accidentally fell from an upper-level balcony” at around 10 p.m. local time on Sunday, May 11, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement.