LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Campus Police Department has suspended its investigation into a UL student who was reported missing on Tuesday.

Today, the department released a photo they say is Caitlyn Chase waiting to depart Lafayette on a bus.

Video surveillance recorded on on Monday showed Chase at the counter of the Lafayette Greyhound bus station.

“We obtained documentation indicating a bus ticket was purchased in her name to Los Angeles on Monday, June 25, 2018, at approximately 12:45 P.M.,” the department said today.

On June 26, her family contacted the department concerned about here welfare because they have not heard from her in 48 hours.

Officers responded and were unable to locate her in her dorm. Officers reviewed video footage and observed Chase at approximately 7:48 a.m. Tuesday morning exiting the hallway leading from her room into the lobby area. There is also video footage of her eating breakfast on campus that morning before going to the bus station.

She left her cell phone, keys and other possessions in her dorm.

“Being a ‘voluntary’ missing person is not a crime,” the department said today. “Any adult person can simply walk away, and choose to ignore family, friends, associates and employers. Since this type of behavior is not ‘criminal’, law enforcement is limited on how it conduct these types of investigations.”

No crime is suspected, the department said.

But her father is still frantically searching in Los Angeles to find his daughter.

“There’s just been nothing, it’s like she’s disappeared off the face of the earth,” said Bryan Chase, her father said.

He jetted to L.A. on Wednesday hoping he could catch the greyhound bus when it arrived, but he says it already arrived hours earlier.

But on Monday…

“Her car was left in the parking lot, her cell phone was left in her dorm room with the sim card removed,” said Chase.

He says he has private investigators assisting him, because things aren’t adding up, especially when he opened up her phone account.

“That’s when I noticed, all these text messages. I mean hundreds and hundreds of text messages, to this 213 area code number, and I did a search for it, it was out of Los Angeles,” he said.

Chase said the last text was at 5:30 a.m. on Monday.

After Bryan tried to call the 213 area code number, he said it initially rang and went to voicemail, but once he texted the number, he was blocked. He also tried to Snapchat the person associated with the account, and he was blocked there as well.

“I don’t know why she would pull that sim out, somebody would’ve had to told her to do that… Somebody would have had to tell her to pay cash at the bus stop,” said Chase.

Caitlyn’s father says he’s living a nightmare and will continue to look for her. He just hopes she’s okay.  

“I just want to know she’s alive, and she’s safe. That’s all I want.”

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UPDATE: 7 p.m.

Bryan tells News 10 that he may have located the father of a girl Caitlyn has been in contact with. 

We will update this story with more information as it develops.