Detectives seek missing bicycle ridden by slain Cotati teen found at Sonoma State University

Slain Cotati teen Kirk Kimberly was last seen Oct. 17 as he left home on his mountain bike.

Kimberly’s partially buried body was found more than two weeks later by a landscaper clearing brush at the Sonoma State University campus. The bicycle has not been recovered.

On Monday, Sonoma County sheriff’s detectives asked the public to help find the bike, a white men’s Cannondale Quick CX 3 with newly installed road tires that have a reflective material built into the sidewalls.

“We are looking over the last couple days of his life, who he was in contact with, any significant issues in his life,” Sgt. Spencer Crum said. “He was seen leaving his house on the bicycle… We can’t locate it.”

Kimberly, 18, apparently said he was going to meet a friend in Rohnert Park when he left home, sheriff’s officials said.

His father called the Cotati Police Department on Oct. 19 and filed a missing person’s report, according to Crum.

Kimberly was a 2016 graduate of Rancho Cotate High School. He was not a student at Sonoma State University and had no known connection to the school, sheriff’s officials have said. His body was found mostly buried in a secluded, wooded area west of a campus parking lot near the Green Music Center.

An autopsy revealed he had suffered multiple stab wounds.

Anyone with information about the Cannondale mountain bike can call Sonoma County Sheriff’s Detective Joe Horsman at 707-565-2185.

You can reach Staff Writer Julie Johnson at 707-521-5220 or julie.johnson@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @jjpressdem.