Public Safety is investigating the Sunday evening theft of a vehicle from the UC parking lot.

The victim, a 23-year-old female UTM student, reported her green 1992 Geo Storm missing at about 5:30 p.m. on Sunday from a 30 minute parking space in the UC parking lot after she recognized that her keys were missing.

The vehicle was recovered by UTM student Tamekia Dancy at Vowell and Sons Lumber Company, located at 1000 Broadway St., at 6:06 p.m., but the victim reported that her car CD player, three textbooks, a black bag with sorority letters, a sorority pin and sorority history book were missing. The victim also said the last photograph made of her mother before her death was missing.

The victim was attending the Founders’ Day program for the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in Watkins Auditorium Sunday night. The sorority then left the auditorium and went outside to take a photograph, and the victim left her keys on the audio control desk in the auditorium. Later, she noticed her keys were missing.

“I really thought it was a joke,” the victim said. “I didn’t think it was gone for real.”

When officers arrived at Vowell and Sons, where Dancy found the vehicle, they found that the keys to the car were missing. The keys were attached to a UTM student ID case and contained the victim’s student ID, driver’s license and two Union Planters bank cards.

The vehicle was valued at $3000, and the lost bag, books and CD player were valued at $350.

There are currently no leads or suspects in the case, but an investigation by Public Safety is ongoing.