- Jay Lee, a 20-year-old University of Mississippi student, has been missing for a week.
- Lee's father urged anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact the police.
- Police said they found Lee's car after it was towed from an apartment complex the day he went missing.
In a video posted by police on Thursday, the father of University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee, 20, is urging anyone with information about his son's disappearance to contact police and "help find my son."
Lee — who wears makeup and women's clothing in some photos posted on social media but uses he/him pronouns, according to his Facebook page — was last seen at 5:58 a.m. last Friday leaving the student housing Campus Walk apartments in Oxford. He was wearing a silver robe, gold sleeping cap, and slippers, according to a statement from the Oxford Police Department.
"I want everyone to know that whether you're Black, white, green, polka dotted, doesn't matter who you are, he was there to help if he saw the need," Jay's father, Jimmie Lee Sr., said in the video.
Lee is a social work major and campaigned to be the University of Mississippi homecoming king in 2021, receiving more than 45% of the initial vote and forcing a runoff with his opponent before losing the final election, according to the school's student newspaper.
His disappearance is being investigated by the Oxford Police Department and the University of Mississippi Police Department in tandem. Neither immediately responded to Insider's request for comment.
Police found Lee's car at a local towing company on Monday, according to OPD. The car was towed from the Molly Barr Trails apartment complex, about two miles from Campus Walk, the day he went missing.
Lee may have been visiting someone there, according to police.
Law enforcement officials said they sent Lee's vehicle to the Mississippi State Crime Laboratory for processing and have conducted "around a dozen" search warrants on both "physical and digital entities."
They have also begun searching certain areas of Oxford with a K9 unit and rescue team, according to a statement.
"I'm asking that if anyone knows anything or sees anything, say something," Lee's father pleaded in the video. "Contact the law enforcement. Just tell them what you know."