Vanished: College Student Last Seen a 'Half Hour from Home'

Police are asking for help in locating a missing Skippack man who hasn’t been heard from since leaving his Rhode Island college on Thursday.

Police now say Royer may have chosen not to go home, according to a Morning Call report.

Pennsylvania State Police say that Matthew R. Royer, 21, left the University of Rhode Island on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. en route to his Skippack Township home, but has not been heard from since.

Royer is 6-feet-1 and 160 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes, and police believe he is driving a silver 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt.

Video footage shows Royer stopped at a Sunoco station on Route 100 in Lehigh County early Friday. His route probably would have taken him south past Macungie park and the Upper Milford fire company.

Other video surveillance later showed his vehicle in Lebanon County—about a half hour from his home, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report.

Royer's parents are pleading for his safe return, NBC 10 reports.

Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to contact the Skippack Barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police at 610-584-1250.