Police Identify Man Who Left Bar with Missing UVA Student Hannah Graham … Described as a 32 Year Old Black Male, 6′ 2″ with Dreadlocks (Update: Searched of His Car and Condo)

According to Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo in a press conference Friday, missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham was seen by eyewitnesses and on video with a man on Charlottesville’s downtown pedestrian mall early Saturday. Longo went on to say that they believe Graham went to a bar with him on the mall and they believe she was also in his car when he left. The police have searched a car and a condo Friday in connection with the disappearance of a University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Police served a search warrant and seized a vehicle outside 164 Hessian Hills apartment complex in Albemarle County Friday morning. The apartments are “just minutes away” from the Downtown Mall where Graham was last seen on security camera video before she went missing on the morning of 9/13/14. The police have not named or arrested the person of interest, they have described him as a 32-year-old black man with long dreadlocks.

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Police who searched a car and a condo Friday in connection with the disappearance of a University of Virginia student almost a week ago say they have identified the man who was with Hannah Graham when she was last seen.

Witnesses saw Graham, 18, of Alexandria, Va., inside a downtown restaurant and bar early Saturday with a 32-year-old man who had been observed earlier on surveillance video tailing the sophomore, Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo said.

Before the two entered the bar, witnesses saw the man, dressed in all white, put his hands around Graham’s waist. At the bar, the man bought alcohol, and he and Graham left after 15 minutes, Longo said.

“People saw Hannah, and people saw him, and people saw them together,” Longo said.

Shortly after that, the man’s 1998 burnt orange Chrysler coupe left the city’s Downtown Mall area, a seven-block pedestrian strip lined with shops and restaurants. Longo said he believes that Graham was in that car.

“There was no probable cause to arrest him, no legally sufficient reason to detain him,” the police chief said. “He’s not in custody, but we know who he is.”

Missing UVA student left with man in car.

Police executed a search warrant of the man’s car, a 1997 burnt orange Chrysler Coupe, and an apartment at 164 Hessian Hills Way Friday morning. The man police were looking for was inside the apartment along with two other people, but he is not in custody, police said.

The man is described as a black male, 32-year-old, 6′ 2″ tall with dreadlocks dressed in all white. Multiple witnesses told police that a black man with dreadlocks turned around when he saw Hannah Graham walking on the Downtown Mall, police said.

“We’re interested in him,” Chief Tim Longo said, but did not call the man a suspect. Police said they have spoken with this man and want to speak with him again.

Volunteers wanted in search: The Virginia Department of Emergency Management was organizing the search, and volunteers were required to register at a website, helpfindhannah.brmrg.org.

Anyone with information on her disappearance is asked to call Charlottesville police at 434-295-3851