Crime & Safety
Missing Student Stopped for Gas on Route 100
A University of Rhode Island student stopped in Lehigh County on his way home to Skippack, but he's been missing for four days.
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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.
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.
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Police now say Royer may have chosen not to go home, according to a Morning Call report.
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.
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Video footage shows Royer stopped at a Sunoco station on Route 100 in Upper Macungie Township early Friday. Royer's route would probably have taken him south on 100 past Macungie Park.
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.
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