{"id":587431,"date":"2026-02-13T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/587431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:20:19","slug":"smu-police-search-for-missing-21-year-old-student-last-seen-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/587431\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU Police search for missing 21-year-old student last seen on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/smu-missing-student-brianna-arango-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; Southern Methodist University police are searching for 21-year-old Brianna Arango, a student who was reported missing Thursday after she failed to attend scheduled activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Arango was last seen on the SMU campus near Harold Simmons Hall, located off Airline Road, at approximately 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Her family contacted authorities around 3:30 p.m. Thursday when she did not arrive for a planned early-afternoon meeting. Police noted that Arango also failed to attend her 1 p.m. class, a disappearance officials are treating as a &#8220;matter of concern.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">When last seen, Arango was wearing a white shirt and blue sweatpants while carrying a beige tote bag.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Anyone with information regarding Arango\u2019s whereabouts is urged to contact SMU Police at 214-768-3388.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Anonymous tips can be submitted via the Silent Witness Program at 214-SMU-2TIP, online at smu.edu\/2TIP, or through the SMU Aware safety app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from SMU police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/college-sports\/smu-mustangs\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SMU Mustangs<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Southern Methodist University police are searching for 21-year-old Brianna Arango, a student who was reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":587432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1369,6082,1596,7290,50,14971,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-587431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-smu-mustangs","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116064237954588543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}