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Update: Missing FSU Student Found

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Courtesy of the Leon County Sheriff's Office
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Update: 7:50 p.m.

 

Law enforcement have located missing FSU student Justin Dean Shields. The 19-year-old college student was found about a mile from his car when police K-9 units picked up on a scent trail. Officials say Shields was scratched up and dehydrated, but otherwise okay. He was taken to a local hospital.

 

Leon County law enforcement officers are continuing to search for a missing FSU student. Officials are asking for the public’s help finding 19-year-old Justin Dean Shields. Anyone with information is asked to call the Leon County Sheriff’s office.

Shields is described as a 6 foot white man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He weighs about 180 pounds.
 

Officers have located Shields’ car on Old Magnolia Road, about a mile North of Rocco Road. His phone and wallet were in the car. Shields was last seen by friends on FSU’s campus Wednesday. Police received a report of someone matching Shields’ description walking near the car Friday.

Officers are continuing their search using K-9 and aviation units.

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Regan McCarthy is the Assistant News Director for WFSU Public Media. Before coming to Tallahassee, Regan graduated with honors from Indiana University’s Ernie Pyle School of Journalism. She worked for several years for NPR member station WFIU in Bloomington, Ind., where she covered local and state government and produced feature and community stories.

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