Police and family members are still searching for a missing Texas A&M student from Flower Mound after his vehicle was found in Austin.
On Thursday, December 22, Tanner Hoang’s silver Lexus was found unoccupied in a parking lot.
Hoang disappeared on December 16 after his cell phone was turned off around 8 a.m. He was seen getting gas at a Shell station around 11 a.m. the same day in Caldwell, about 30 minutes west of College Station.
According to reports from local news outlet Fox 4 Dallas, Hoang’s relatives were on their way to attend his graduation that weekend and had planned to meet Hoang for lunch.
However, Texas A&M University said Hoang, a civil engineering student, was not qualified to graduate, and his name was not included at the commencement ceremony.
The Dallas Express contacted the College Station Police Department for additional information.
“He used his credit card, from what I understand, he filled up with gas in Caldwell and then headed towards Bastrop and was seen in Bastrop,” said Social Media Officer David Simmons to The Dallas Express.
Simmons told The Dallas Express that the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is assisting the College Station Police Department with the investigation. Simmons confirmed to The Dallas Express that Hoang’s family filed the missing person’s report.
“They had come into town on Friday, were supposed to meet up with him at 11:30 for lunch, and then he was supposed to graduate later that day, but he did not show up to the lunch, which then they [the family] found out that he wasn’t actually graduating this year,” Simmons explained.
Hoang is 6 feet tall, around 185 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes.
If anyone has any information or has seen Tanner Hoang, they are asked to call the College Station Police Department at 979-764-3600 or contact DPS.