FARMVILLE — Longwood University President W. Taylor Reveley IV issued a statement Friday telling the campus that the remains of missing student Angelica “AJ” Hadsell had been found in Southampton County.

Hadsell had been reported missing while in her hometown of Norfolk during spring break.

“Though the weight of this horrible prospect has loomed, today extinguishes our hope of AJ’s safe return and confirms our worst fear,” President Reveley said in a campus-wide release. “Our thoughts are profoundly with her family. These past weeks, they have endured unimaginable anguish and uncertainty, and now they must confront the terrible grief of this loss.

“As we keep AJ’s family foremost in our thoughts, our tight-knit community will also feel great heartache,” President Reveley said. “My thoughts are especially with those at Longwood who knew AJ best—her hometown friends, her hall-mates, her fellow members of the club softball and club field hockey teams, her professors.”