Freshman returns after missing for almost 30 hours
Was seen at nightclub with unidentified white male, friends say
Angela Marie Latona
Issue date: 4/30/07 Section: News
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"[Vasquez is] completely safe. Everything was completely fine," said CGS freshman Rissa Freedman.
Vasquez returned to Warren at around 8 a.m., Freedman said.
Vasquez, 19, had been missing after visiting Mantra, a nightclub and lounge, and was last seen with an unidentified white male between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday, according to friends who went out with her.
Vasquez said she did not leave the nightclub with any of the men who had been around her at the nightclub, and she said she spent the night with a friend.
"I feel bad because of my irresponsible behavior," Vasquez said. "A lot of people were in a panic because I couldn't call people. Because of my actions, people had to worry, and I feel horrible."
She had visited the club with about 10 friends from Warren, said College of Arts and Sciences freshman Brian Koehler.
When Vasquez, of Kansas City, Mo., did not return to her room yesterday morning, her friends called the Boston University Police Department and notified Warren Towers security.
After making phone calls to people who attended or were near Mantra last night, the friends compiled a description of the man who was supposedly last seen with Vasquez, said School of Management freshman Kathryn Saloom.
Saloom described the man as white, "maybe Italian-looking" with dark hair, dark eyes and wearing a diamond earring in each ear. She said he is between 5-feet-7-inches and 5-feet-10-inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds, according to the reports compiled by friends.
"I called somebody that I had recognized hanging around her, and he said, 'She told me she was leaving with her boyfriend,'" Saloom said.
Vasquez does not have a boyfriend, said Saloom, who said the man Vasquez left with was last seen with her between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
Koehler said he received a text message from Vasquez's phone at "exactly 3 a.m." that read, "I'm home and fine." Koehler said he was suspicious of the message because "everything [was] spelled correctly, with a period at the end," and "she was way too drunk to type by herself, and she wouldn't type like that anyways. She wouldn't put an apostrophe."