Dilan Ashar’s parents issues a video appeal seeking help in tracking their 22-year-old, a University of Maryland student.
The family of 22-year-old University of Maryland student Dilan Shaan Ashar has made an emotional appeal for help as authorities continue searching for him, days after he disappeared from the university campus. Ashar was last seen on surveillance footage at around 2:30 am on October 2 at the Terrapin Trail Garage on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus. Police said he had left his residence at about 2 am that morning. Police have described Ashar as 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing about 185 pounds. On October 3, police used a drone to search wooded areas near the Terrapin Trail Garage and later conducted a K-9 search. The following morning, nearly 50 first responders and nine dogs searched approximately 110 acres around the garage. Anyone who may have information about Ashar’s whereabouts has been asked to contact the University of Maryland Police Department at 301-405-3555.
We want you home,” said his mother in the recorded video message released through the University of Maryland Police Department, urging students and members of the community to share his photographs and look for any information that could help locate him. “Dilan, we love you so much and we hope you are safe. At the time he was last seen, he was wearing a black University of Maryland hooded sweatshirt, grey sweatpants and white shoes. Police also used a drone to search the university golf course. Ashar’s family and police are asking people who live or work near the university to check security-camera footage from their homes, vehicles and businesses for anything that could help investigators establish where he went. Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the department’s website.