“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.”

The senior student accidentally fell from a balcony while on an annual senior class trip, Bentley University officials said.

Gaurav Jaisingh has died after he fell from a balcony during a senior trip to the Bahamas less than a week before graduation.