Visiting scholar missing from University of Illinois

Monday, June 12, 2017
URBANA, Ill. (WLS) -- University of Illinois Campus police are asking the public's help locating visiting scholar Yingying Zhang, 26, who is missing from the U of I Urbana-Champaign campus.

Police said Zhang has not been heard from since Friday afternoon, and attempts to reach her by phone and at her residence have been unsuccessful.
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Police said Zhang boarded an MTD Teal Line bus at 1:35 p.m. Friday, June 9, at Orchard Downs. She left the bus at Springfield and Matthews avenues in Urbana at 1:52 p.m.



She was last seen just after 2 p.m. Friday on security video from the B-4 parking garage on North Goodwin Avenue that police released. In the footage, Zhang is seen on east side of North Goodwin when a black Saturn Astra of an unknown year pulls up beside her. She and the driver speak for a period of time before she gets in the car, which drives away heading north on Goodwin. The final clip in the video shows a closer view of the same car from a different camera, just before it picked up Zhang, police said.
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Police said Zhang was last seen wearing a charcoal gray hat with a white logo on the front and a white and pink flannel print long sleeved shirt, white undershirt, jeans, white shoes and a navy backpack. She has shoulder-length brown hair and wears glasses.



If you have any information about Zhang's whereabouts call 911 or the University of Illinois Police at 217-333-1216.
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