Search Called off For Missing Student
Police have called off the search for a University of St. Thomas student who went missing early Sunday morning.
Daniel Zamlen, whose 19th birthday passed on Wednesday, has not been seen or heard from since early in the morning on April 12.
Zamlen, a diabetic, had been at a party where he was seen drinking, St. Thomas spokesman Jim Winterer told the Minnesota Daily. Winterer said Zamlen left the party after an argument, and his friends had called him, intending to pick him up.
When the friends could not find Zamlen, whose phone had died, they contacted the police. For the next several days, intensive searches were conducted throughout the St. Paul neighborhood where he was last heard from and along the Mississippi River.
The search, which involved neighborhood canvassing by friends and family, water and helicopter patrols and the use of a bloodhound dog, was called off on Thursday.
Zamlen's Type I diabetes likely intensified the effects of his drinking, and the lack of insulin could have quickly caused him to enter a coma.
Daniel Zamlen's father, Dale Zamlen, told the Minnesota Daily that his friends and family will continue searching for Daniel. “We got to find him,” he said.