(Photo: Thomas Cain/AP)
A Viet graduate student at Yale University has gone missing just days before her pending wedding, prompting a massive search by state police and the FBI, reports the AP here.
Annie Le, 24, a doctoral student in pharmacology, was last seen at her laboratory Tuesday, and her purse, cell phone, credit cards and money were found in her office. To the right is a picture of Annie Le provided by Yale University.
Le is set to get married this Sunday. She has not contacted her family, co-workers or friends since Tuesday.
State police with bloodhounds searched the area where Le was last seen, and authorities were continuing to search nearby. The FBI was assisting, and investigators also were reviewing images from closed-circuit cameras.
Her fiance, professors, colleagues, friends and family also were helping.
Yale University Police has published the following phone number for people with information about Annie Le’s disappearance: (203) 432-4400.
The AP reports:
Le, 4-foot-11 and 90 pounds, is of Asian descent and has brown hair and brown eyes. She is from Placerville, Calif., the Yale Daily News reported. She received her undergraduate degree in bioscience in 2007 from the University of Rochester in New York, said Sharon Dickman, a university spokeswoman.
While at the University of Rochester, she did a summer project at the National Institutes of Health on bone tissue engineering with a goal of regenerating tissue for people suffering from degenerative bone diseases. She said her career goal was to work as an NIH investigator or as a professor.
Her mentor, Rocky Tuan, described her as bright and hardworking, saying the NIH undergraduate scholars program was very selective.
“She’s a very happy person,” Tuan said. “Everybody got along with her. She’s always smiling, laughing.”
My prayer is with her and the family. It’s heartbreaking to see things like this happen to any family.
I hope she is ok. I am praying for her safe return.
Its sad to see one of our own end up missing. We viets need to take care of each other just like Phuong Le sings in his songs.
More on Annie Le from AP :
Annie Le wrote a magazine article earlier this year about how to stay safe around the Ivy League campus.
Annie Le’s article, called “Crime and Safety in New Haven,” was published in February in a magazine produced by Yale’s medical school. It compares higher instances of robbery in New Haven to cities that house other Ivy League schools and includes an interview with Yale Police Chief James Perrotti, who offers advice such as “pay attention to where you are” and “avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim.”
“In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils,” Le concludes. “But with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic.”
Now, people afraid that she has become another statistic !
General Chan, I agree.
We might have to formulate some type of system to support fellow viets needing emergency help.
HELP! Where can one go for help when one being attack by idiot blogger?
Tila, I am warning you. This is a serious matter and do not play around!
Please give us updates as they become available Bolsavik.
Thanks
I agree with Jung Kim. The situation is very serious. In the last few years, statictics indicated that most missing Asian women (or Vietnamese especially) cases ended up tragically.