Still No Sign Of Ole Miss Student Days After Disappearance

A University of Mississippi student remains missing days after he disappeared from an off-campus apartment complex. Now police are asking for the public’s help. Jimmie “Jay” Lee, 20, was last seen Friday, July 8, leaving the Campus Walk Apartments in Oxford just before 6 a.m., according to Oxford police and The University of Mississippi Police Department. Lee was last seen wearing a silver housecoat, a gold sleeping cap and gray slippers and was driving a 2014 black Ford Fusion with Mississippi license plate “JAYLEE1,” university police wrote in a missing person alert. Friends said he hasn’t been heard from since.

“The departments are utilizing all available resources to track tips, potential witnesses, speaking with friends, running search warrants, canvassing areas and collecting evidence,” the agencies wrote in a joint statement Tuesday, July 12. “We are asking the public again for any tips, information ... that will lead to Lee being found.”

On July 11, authorities found Lee’s car in impound after it was moved from the Molly Barr Trails apartments where police believe he was visiting before he disappeared, according to a news release. Neighbor Lakiowa Milan told WLBT the situation is unusual and out of character for Lee.

Lee is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds with black and brown hair and brown eyes, police said.

Anyone with information on Lee’s whereabouts is asked to call Oxford police at 662-232-2400, or University of Mississippi police at 662-915-7234. Oxford is about 90 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.