Dear campus community member:

The University of Illinois Police Department is informing you of this missing person in hope that you might provide information that could lead to his safe return. We believe this to be an isolated event, and the situation poses no immediate threat to the safety of the general public

Police are looking for a U. of I. student who was reported missing this week after he left an apartment to meet a friend.

U. of I. Police are looking for Vicente Mundo, 20, of Champaign, who was reported missing on Jan. 27. He was last seen around 7 p.m. on Jan. 25 at a friend's campus-area apartment in the 900 block of South Third Street, Champaign. Witnesses said that he left the apartment to meet a friend.

Mundo lives in the 300 block of East Chalmers Street, Champaign. He is described as a Hispanic man with black hair and brown eyes, 6-feet-tall and weighing about 165 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red Chicago Blackhawks baseball cap, blue coat and red backpack.

He drives a 2006 silver Acura TL with Illinois license plate number 2557BD, which is a Chicago Bears vanity plate.

Witnesses said that the absence is out of character for Mundo. U. of I. Police and Champaign Police are investigating, and other area law enforcement agencies have been informed of the attempts to locate Mundo. Anyone with information should contact the University of Illinois Police Department at 217-333-1216 or the Champaign Police Department at 217-351-4545.