Barcelona police trying to find a lacking College of Alabama scholar who vanished from a nightclub early Tuesday morning mentioned they discovered a physique at Somorrostro Seaside.
Catalan Police advised NBC Information that the physique was discovered Thursday round 6 p.m. native time. An id has not been confirmed.
James Paul Gracey, a junior accounting main, was final seen at Shoko, a beachfront nightclub in Villa Olimpica in Spain, his dad and mom, Taras and Therese Gracey, mentioned in an announcement.
Gracey was carrying a white shirt, darkish pants, and a series with a gold rhinestone cross when he went lacking.
Cavin McLay, the president of the college’s Theta Chi fraternity, mentioned Gracey was with a gaggle on the membership they usually acquired separated, “and that was the final time they noticed him.”
McLay mentioned he’s in Barcelona, however isn’t staying with the identical group of associates as Gracey. He mentioned about 10 individuals are in Barcelona visiting a number of fraternity members who’re learning overseas.
Police in Barcelona mentioned that they had obtained a name a couple of doable disappearance of an individual who went lacking round 3 a.m. Tuesday within the Port Olímpic space. His aunt, Beth Marren O’Reilly, advised NBC Information that Gracey’s dad and mom grew to become involved after they obtained a “cellphone name that his cellphone was picked up.”
“It’s a type of belongings you assume isn’t going to occur to your loved ones however proper now we simply actually need to get the phrase out, get his image on the market and simply beg anyone that may have seen him the opposite night time or bumped into him and are afraid as a result of they had been doing one thing they shouldn’t have, simply please come ahead,” she mentioned.
Gracey is from the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst. The college mentioned he was on a “private journey” when he disappeared.
“We’re preserving Jimmy and his household on the forefront of our ideas, and our employees are in direct communication with the household to supply each assist and help doable,” a college spokesperson mentioned in an announcement Thursday. “Anybody with info that will assist is inspired to contact native authorities. The security and well-being of all our college students, right here and overseas, are at all times the College’s prime precedence.”
