Around 150 community members gathered in the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City on Tuesday for a candle-lit vigil for Cristian Martinez, a 20-year-old from Muscatine, Iowa who went missing on Saturday, April 15.

Martinez was last seen in the alley behind the Iowa City bar Bardot, around 1 AM.

Martinez’s family and friends have spent the days since he went missing putting up flyers around Iowa City and organizing search parties.

The Iowa City Police Department is asking for anyone with information to contact the department at 319-356-5275.

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Matt Sindt

A crowd gathers to hear a priest speak about Cristian Martinez during a candle lit vigil at the Pedestrian Mall in downtown Iowa City on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Martinez went missing in Iowa City on Saturday, April 15.