CHICAGO – Chicago police Wednesday found a car matching the description of the one sought in connection with the slaying of University of Chicago student Amadou Cisse, as well as with two other gun-related incidents on campus.

The car was found parked in front of a dumpster around 10:45 a.m. in the 2400 block of West 102nd Street, Officer Laura Kubiak said.

Police have not determined if it is the car believed to be used in the attacks. At around 2 p.m., the vehicle was towed and police said it was being taken to Grand Central Area headquarters for evidence processing.

The car has a sunroof and two red doors on the driver’s side similar to the image police circulated in an alert. It appeared to be gold or light brown.

Cisse graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 2001 with degrees in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

In a campuswide e-mail Wednesday, Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen said the college community was in mourning, and that testimonials about Cisse were “flooding in.”

Hansen’s e-mail said chemistry professor Rachel Austin, who taught Cisse in two classes, remembers him as “one of the brightest students I’ve ever taught.”

Austin recalled that in a theoretical chemistry class, one of the answers Cisse gave on a problem set “was so thorough, I still use it as an answer key. Amadou was just so far above the other students in that class, it was difficult to use the same scale to grade him. And, he was just very pleasant, polite, kind and warm.”

In the alert, Chicago police described the car, whose image was captured on surveillance video, as light silver or white with a red door on the driver’s side. That car, police said, might have been used in the two attacks that preceded Cisse’s shooting.

Detectives said they have received several calls of cars matching the description.

Meanwhile, members of the University of Chicago and Senegalese communities packed a small funeral home this afternoon on the South Side to join together to pray over the body of Amadou Cisse.

Dr. Ousmane Diallo, a relative, said the family was uplifted by the large number of people who came to show their support.

“It shows that he was a role model. Even though he was shy all his life, he had a great impact. As we say in Islam, he lived well and he died well.”

Cisse, a doctoral student in chemistry, was walking home from a social gathering on campus when he was gunned down near his apartment building early Monday morning.

After attending high school and college in the U.S. on academic scholarships, Cisse had recently finished defending his doctoral thesis.

During his brother’s wedding last year, he had talked of returning to his homeland, perhaps even to run for political office. He would have graduated in three weeks.

After Monday’s attacks, University of Chicago officials decided to increase by half the number of police car patrols between 4 p.m. and midnight and to double police patrols after midnight on and around campus.

They also increased bike patrols; added two vans to the SafeRide program, a late-night van service for students or employees; and are considering adding more security cameras.

They are also establishing a temporary police substation on the south end of campus as a new police station is built.