MEDIA ADVISORY
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

Candlelight vigil for missing Marshall student set for Thursday

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Friends of Leah Hickman, the Marshall University student reported missing since Friday, Dec. 14, will conduct a candlelight vigil at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, on the Memorial Student Center plaza on the Huntington campus.

K.D. Crank, a Marshall student and close friend of Hickman’s who is helping to organize the vigil, said it is open to the public. “We want Leah to know that we want her back; that we are searching for her. We are just looking for information that will give us hope,” Crank said.

For more information, contact Crank at (304) 840-9225 or e-mail her at crank16@marshall.edu.

Anyone who has information on Hickman’s whereabouts is asked to call the Huntington Police Department at (304) 696-4444.

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