An Ohio State student went missing early Saturday morning from outside a bar in the South Campus Gateway, according to the Columbus Division of Police.
Friends last saw Brian Shaffer, a second-year medical student, leaving the Ugly Tuna Saloona at 1:30 a.m.
On Tuesday night, police and Alexis Waggoner, Shaffer’s girlfriend, reviewed video tape from the Gateway. Waggoner said the tapes have yet to yield much result.
“The video tapes aren’t really conclusive,” she said. “They definitely show him at the Ugly Tuna. There’s some more tape that needs to be looked at as far as that goes right now.”
Shaffer and Waggoner had plans to fly to Florida later in the weekend.
“It’s very out of character for him,” Waggoner said. “We’re all very, very worried and we want to see him come home … He and I are supposed to be in Florida for spring break right now.”
Sgt. Rick Thompson of the Columbus Division of Police said the current situation does not look good.
“Through my experience doing this job, those two signs of not answering his cell phone and not contacting anybody – especially with reservations to Florida – those two indicators are bad signs,” Thompson said.
Waggoner said the police have been helpful.
“The police have been looking at everything they can – they’ve been really interactive with us,” she said.
The College of Medicine sent out an e-mail to all medical students yesterday notifying them of the disappearance.
“It’s just a mystery,” Thompson said. “He was with friends and then one minute he wasn’t.”
The College of Medicine and Public Health is offering a $5,000 reward and Crime Stoppers is offering $2,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Any information can be reported to the Columbus Division of Police’s Special Victim’s Bureau at 614-645-4670.
