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Friends, family and Cincinnati police are still searching for a missing University of Cincinnati student.A police report states that Brogan Dulle, 21, was last seen early Sunday morning when he left his East McMillan apartment to try to find his missing cell phone.Watch this story Dulle left without his wallet, money or identification, and doesn't have a car, police said.Cincinnati police said Wednesday that they would be briefing Dulle's family on what investigators have discovered so far. More information will be released to the public later Wednesday, police said.On a Facebook page set up by family members, it was stated that Dulle didn't show up for work at the Cincinnati Zoo on Monday.“You really don't think this could happen to your family, but it is, so we're praying,” Dulle’s cousin Libby MacVeigh said.Dulle is a swim coach, education major and a Turpin High School graduate, a post on the Facebook page stated.“Nothing that I know about him, having known him my entire life, indicates to me that Brogan would just walk away. He wouldn't do this. He wouldn't do it to his mom and dad,” Dulle’s aunt said.He is described as 6 feet tall, weighing about 145 pounds with blond hair, blue eyes and glasses.Dulle was last seen wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants between 179 East McMillan and 205 West McMillan.He was at The St. Clair and Mac’s Pizza in Clifton prior to leaving home to look for the cellphone.Friends and family were passing out fliers with Dulle's photo and description around the Clifton area on Tuesday. More people moved into adjacent neighborhoods with the fliers on Wednesday.Volunteers like Dave Rader with the Ohio chapter of Texas EquuSearch said he wants to help out.“We actually seen it on the news and you know it just seemed like the kind of kid that just wouldn't up and walk away and I felt like we had to do something,” Rader said.Rader said he and his group cannot officially help search until the Cincinnati Police Department gives him the green light, but he’s ready to go when called upon and will at least give the family guidance on how to conduct searches.“We've got trained professionals to go out with the search teams to show them what to do and what not to do,” said Rader.“We would like to thank everyone who has searched, posted, shared or tweeted in our efforts to find Brogan, including those who love him and know what a wonderful and caring young man he is. We also want to thank the many complete strangers who are working so hard to help find Brogan," Dulle's family said in a statement."The kindness and love shared by so many is helping us tremendously during this difficult time. We are hopeful that Brogan will be found safe and soon. We miss him and love him very much," the statement concluded.Verizon told the family that Dulle's phone was not on but it provided the family with a location where it was last located at 1:50 a.m. Sunday.“(I’m) really just hanging on to hope that we're going to find him and when we do he's going to be alright,” friend Nicolas Sarky said.Anyone with information is asked to contact Cincinnati police at 513-765-1212.