Patrick Kycia, Missing From Morehead University
Another Missing College Student in Minnesota.
Patrick Kycia had been drinking heavily at a fraternity house party before quietly disappearing into the night, his Minnesota State University Moorhead roommates recalled Monday.
“Pat’s a pretty straight kid,” roommate Ricky Sayarath said of the 19-year-old sophomore from Stillwater. “He had a philosophy test Friday morning and he takes school very seriously. We figured he’d be home soon.”
But Kycia never came home Thursday night, never took his philosophy test, never showed up for his 5 p.m. shift at Domino’s Pizza.
By Monday, while officials from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources combed the Red River and authorities, including the FBI, continued their search for Kycia, his friends and family began fearing the worst.
“We have no hard evidence of foul play, but people just don’t disappear into thin air,” his father, Julian Kycia, said Monday afternoon before leaving Moorhead and heading back to the Twin Cities.
“And as far as him just walking away, well, that’s impossible.”Patrick Kycia was studying to be a pharmacist and planned to find work in the Twin Cities. And with a 3.65 grade-point average at Minnesota State-Moorhead, the 6-foot-2-inch, 230-pound kid with glasses and short, curly brown hair seemed well on his way.
But last Thursday, he found a detour — a party at the Phi Sigma Kappa house, where whiskey flowed and beers could be purchased for $1, no I.D. required, Sayarath said