Family Looking For Missing 18-Year-Old UW Student

The family of an 18-year-old University of Washington student is looking for the teen after she disappeared on Mar. 5.

Mark Jameson with the Seattle Police Department said the family filed a missing persons report for Marizela Perez at 11:20 a.m. on Sunday.

Jameson said there is nothing so far in the woman’s disappearance to indicate foul play.

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The woman's family said she left the Rainier Beach neighborhood at about noon Saturday and was likely headed for the light rail station at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street, and then eventually on to the UW Seattle campus.

"She wanted to be a chemist, at some point, she wanted to be.. she wanted to be a lot of things," said Perez' cousin Michelle Seth.

The missing woman's loved ones are hanging posters along her likely route to the light rail station in the hopes they can find her.

The family is getting help looking for Perez beyond the Seattle area as well. Perez' cousin is well-known conservative blogger, Michelle Malkin.

Malkin wrote about the missing teen on her website and sent out a message via the social networking site Twitter, in hopes that one of her over 150,000 followers may help generate a lead in the case.

Perez is described as Asian, 5 feet 5 inches tall, 110 pounds, has a thin build and has a “bob” haircut. She was wearing jeans and brown suede boots and may have been wearing green contact lenses. She has a tattoo on her left inner arm with words in Tagalog that say: "lahat ay magiging maayos."

A post on Malkin's website said "A Seattle PD detective from the missing persons bureau says there’s evidence that she was last seen Saturday afternoon at the Safeway in the city’s University District on 4732 Brooklyn Ave NE between 1-2 p.m. At some point during that time, purchases were made on her debit card."

Despite a history of depression, pictures on Perez' bedroom wall show her huge smile.

"She's always been kind of cheerful, she's very goofy," said Seth.

The woman’s family told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News that it is out of character for Perez to just disappear.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Seattle police.