Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a missing student from the University of Rhode Island.

On Thursday evening Matthew Royer, 21, turned in his apartment keys to his landlord, left his on-campus apartment and began to travel home to southeastern Pennsylvania after the end of the spring semester. He never made it home.

His last confirmed sighting was at 2 a.m. on Friday morning at a Sunoco gas station located just 35 miles from his parent's home. Police say his silver 2008 Chevy Cobalt with Pennsylvania tags GZR-9059 was spotted at Route 501 and Route 422 in Lebanon County, Pa at 1 p.m. Friday.

This latest sighting occurred 11 hours after the Sunoco sighting and 19 hours after he told his parents via text message he was leaving Rhode Island, confirmed by a 6:30 p.m. stop at a Rhode Island gas station.

Royer's parents say his normal route home from school takes him five to six hours.

"We've narrowed it down to 30-40 miles from our house and we can't find him," said his mother, Janet Royer.

Royer's parents were away for the weekend, but hurried home after learning Royer did not show up to work on Friday. At that point they decided to call the police and report him missing. Activity on his cell phone shows it stopped working around noon on Saturday.

Police are not classifying Royer's disappearance as suspicious at this time.

"You couldn't ask for a better son," Janet said."It's not like him, if he wasn't coming home he would've told me he wasn't coming home, unless he couldn't."

Matthew Royer is said to be six-feet-one-inch tall, weighing 160 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. His family has requested that all information, tips and sightings be directed to the Pennsylvania State Police in Skippack at 610-584-1250.