The body of a former Washington State basketball player was found in a dense thicket in central Brazil, police said Monday, two weeks after he was reported missing.

Police spokesman Norton Luiz said by telephone that police found the body of Tony Harris on Sunday after an anonymous tip. Harris was playing for Universo, a professional team based in Brasilia, the country's capital.

Harris, who would have turned 37 Sunday, played on the 1994 Washington State team that made it to the East Regional of the NCAA tournament.

The body was "slumped against a tree in an Army training ground and with the shoelace of one of his sneakers wrapped around his neck," Luiz said. "We believe he may have committed suicide because it appears the body fell from one of the tree's branches, although we are not ruling out homicide."

He said the state of the body indicates that Harris died about five days before he was found near the small town of Formosa.