Vanderbilt alumnus Christopher Kyser Miree was found with a gunshot to his head, in an apparent homicide, this past Friday in his Mobile, Ala., apartment. He was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon.

The investigation into his death is ongoing. The Mobile Police Department ruled it a homicide and will be available to make a statement regarding the investigation on Monday.

On his personal blog, Miree’s younger brother, Harry, described the loss to the Miree family.

“My heart writhes in anguish over the senseless murder of the most peaceful and chipper man this world has ever seen,” he wrote.

Miree graduated in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He was president of Vanderbilt’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Fellow fraternity brother Wyatt Smith commented on the death of his former president in an e-mail correspondence with The Hustler.

“Kyser was an incredible individual, loved and respected by all who knew him. He was a chipper, energetic guy who modeled the Vanderbilt ideal of academic, social and personal balance. Kyser carried so much promise and the world is most assuredly a lesser place without him,” he wrote.

“This is a tragic loss,” Director of Greek Life Kristin Torrey wrote in an e-mail Sunday night. “Kyser was a wonderful young man who will be sorely missed.”

Torrey said the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, in Florida over the weekend for the chapter’s spring formal, suspended their traditional formal activities Saturday night to share memories of Miree.

Miree’s funeral will be held this Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Independent Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Ala. The funeral is open to the public.