A determined search is underway for a Princeton College junior who disappeared from campus practically three days in the past with no hint.
Indiana native Lauren Blackburn, 23, vanished at 6 p.m. Saturday close to the school’s Firestone Library, the college’s Division of Public Security mentioned in an alert Tuesday.
Authorities started scouring close by Lake Carnegie, a man-made physique of water, at about midnight after Blackburn’s telephone had pinged in that neighborhood, in line with experiences.
Groups used drones, sonar-equipped boats and search canine in a single day, Information 12 reported.
The New Jersey lake is close to the Princeton campus, although it’s a couple of mile from the library.
The faculty child, a former options author for the elite college’s pupil newspaper, was carrying blue denims with torn knees, a yellow shirt with a black zippered hooded sweatshirt and blue, flat-bottom sneakers, the division mentioned.
“I’ll share an replace once we know extra, however within the meantime, please maintain Lauren in your ideas as we try to find him,” Vice President for Pupil Life W. Rochelle Calhoun wrote in one other e mail to the scholar physique, in line with the Each day Princetonian.
Earlier than transferring to New Jersey to attend school, Blackburn graduated from Corydon Central Excessive College in southern Indiana close to the Kentucky border.
He made headlines in 2019 when he was awarded a Nationwide Benefit Scholarship and Gates Scholarship in his senior yr of highschool, with academics showering reward on the star pupil, in line with a previous WAVE report.
”He can learn a ebook and know all the things in it,” English trainer Kate Robinson advised the station. “I’m fairly positive he has a photographic reminiscence.”
”He’s variety,” science trainer Karen York added. “I’ve by no means, ever as soon as heard him ever converse a nasty phrase.”
Blackburn advised the station on the time he was nervous about attending the Ivy League establishment, however wanting ahead to the chance.
“I’m very grateful and really feel very blessed,” he reportedly mentioned. “Princeton will permit me to review something and get a world class schooling in something.”
Blackburn is 6-feet-2 and about 170 kilos with brown eyes and black hair.
The varsity’s public security division mentioned anybody with data ought to name 609-258-1000.
