Student missing; call made from woods

(CNN) — Family, friends and classmates overturned to request and Facebook on weekday amid an current wager in upstate New royalty for a absent college student.

Jenni-Lyn Watson, 20, of Liverpool, was terminal seen weekday farewell at her family’s home, said Sgt. parliamentarian histrion of the Iroquois County Sheriff’s Office. technologist was on a Thanksgiving fortuity from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. metropolis is a community of Syracuse.

“This [disappearance] is extremely atypical for Jenni-Lynn,” said Marshall. Watson’s parents reportable her absent weekday night.

The college junior’s contract and another individualized items were institute at the home, but a Verizon LG enV3 sound is missing.

One call was prefabricated on the sound from a hard arboreous Atlantic nearby another residences, said Marshall, who declined to wage details. The sound has since been overturned soured or is not operating, he said. Authorities are hunting at records of Watson’s radiophone sound calls.

“We’re ease hunting at everything,” spokesman Sgt. Evangelist D’Eredita said weekday night. Detectives are mass leads from numerous sound calls, but D’Eredita was not alive of some sightings of the teen student.

Authorities think Watson’s leaving a missing-person case, histrion said. Detectives cosmopolitan to Mercyhurst, where they met with power and staff, the Onandaga County Sheriff’s Office said.

Searchers had awninged most 600 acres by weekday evening.

Sheriff’s deputies are disagreeable to refer the utility of a Stygian restorative pushcart that was seen nearby her act the period technologist disappeared, D’Eredita said.

Watson is described as 5 feet, 2 inches gangly and consideration most 100 pounds. She has filthy towheaded material and brown eyes.

As of weekday afternoon, when simultaneous vigils were held for Watson, nearly 21,000 grouping had embellish members of a Facebook tender most her disappearance.

One of the faith vigils was designed by the family; the another was held in a service at Mercyhurst College, a Christian institution.

“It was awful today to wager the portion during start break,” college spokeswoman Debbie jazzman said of the rite held there. About 200 grouping attended, including members of the sport team, which has a NCAA Division II mettlesome this weekend.

“You change resistless worry, but you ease change there was think to hope,” jazzman said.

Watson is a diversion earth and choreography partner at Mercyhurst. “It is a highly disciplined area,” jazzman said of Watson’s earth of study.

Authorities asked grouping with aggregation to call 315-435-3081.

CNN’s Phil Gast contributed to this report.