Vietnamese-American female student missing in US

Michelle Hoang Thi Le, 26, went missing on May 27 during a break at Kaiser Permanente Hayward Medical Center in Hayward.

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DAILY NEWS

A missing nursing student's family is offering $20,000 for information about her whereabouts after she disappeared Friday at a northern California hospital.

Michelle Hoang Thi Le was last spotted about 7 p.m. Friday going to her car in the parking garage at the Kaiser Permanente Hayward Medical Center. She is enrolled at the Hayward campus of Samuel Merritt University.

The 26-year-old beauty told friends she was going to drive to Reno with a friend after class that night, authorities said. Her friend never heard from her, and Le's vehicle was later found a few blocks from the hospital.

Le had a cell phone with her when she left class, but it was not found in the car.

"We haven't found anything at all that leads us [in] one direction or another, that tells us this is a foul play incident or anything," Lt. Roger Keener of the Hayward Police Department told KGO 7 News in San Francisco.

Le is halfway through Merritt's 12-month accelerated program.

Her family said Monday they collected $20,000 as a reward for her return.

"It's really hard not to assume the worst, but we're trying," the woman's brother, Michael, told reporters. "That's the hardest thing, staying positive."

"The entire Samuel Merritt University community is deeply concerned about the disappearance of our nursing student Michelle Le," school spokeswoman Elizabeth Valente told ABC News.

"She's an intelligent, beautiful, polite person who is very excited about her career of becoming a nurse," Valente said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "She wants to help people."

Anyone with information about Le's whereabouts is asked to contact the Hayward Police Department at (510) 293-7000.

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