The body of a missing Stanford University graduate student was found here Thursday in the trunk of her car and investigators said the case was “consistent with a suicide.”
Police found the silver Toyota Corolla belonging to Mengyao “May” Zhou, 23 – a former National Merit Scholar at La Jolla High School and an electrical engineering student missing since Saturday – around 7 a.m. in a parking lot at Santa Rosa Junior College, Sgt. Lisa Banayat said. Officials at the community college reported first seeing the car there four days earlier.
“There are some items in the vehicle that would be consistent with a suicide,” she said, declining to elaborate. “At this point we want to stay open-minded and look into every possible scenario, but there are things in the vehicle that would be consistent with that.”
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