An 18-year-old Baker University student was reported missing Monday morning.
April Onnen, a freshman, was last heard from Sept. 23, Greg Neis, Baldwin City interim police chief, said.
Onnen’s mother reported her missing.
“We don’t think there’s any foul play. We think she just left school and drove away, but she hasn’t contacted anybody (as of Monday afternoon),” Neis said. “Apparently she packed her belongings in her dorm room and left. Her car and (her belongings) are gone, but she’s not answering her cell phone.”
Onnen’s roommate, freshman Katelin Leon, last saw Onnen the night of Sept. 23.
“She was just in our room sleeping, she had been in bed all day,” she said. “(On the morning of Sept. 24) when I got back to our dorm room, all her stuff was gone.”
Leon hadn’t heard from Onnen until she received a Facebook message from her Monday evening around 5:30 p.m.
“It just said, ‘Sorry for leaving the way I did. It’s complicated,'” she said.
Leon said Onnen’s status on Facebook had also been updated saying she was OK.
“There was a couple times when she mentioned she was unhappy here, but I didn’t think it was that extreme that she would leave without telling anybody,” Leon said.
Neis said Onnen’s parents had her cell phone company locate her cell phone Monday, which was traced to Reno, Nev.
“They think she drove out there to meet somebody,” he said. “Apparently her credit card had been used and she had supposedly spoke to someone where she worked in Topeka.”