2 months ago
An American assemblage student missing while connected outpouring break successful Spain is nan nephew of CNN elder shaper David Gracey, CNN has confirmed. The news web has been updating nan world communicative pinch predominant reports this morning.
James “Jimmy” Gracey, a 20-year-old inferior astatine nan University of Alabama, was past seen by a friend astir 3 a.m. section clip Tuesday extracurricular Barcelona’s Shoko nine adjacent Port Olímpic, nan Gracey family said successful a statement.
The assemblage student had been retired pinch friends earlier that evening but had go separated from nan group. “That was nan past clip we’ve heard from him,” his fraternity brother, Cavin McLay, told CNN connection WBMA. Gracey, of Chicago suburb Elmhurst, Illinois, was visiting friends who are studying abroad.
According to a Facebook message posted by Gracey’s mother Therese Gracey, nan student was past seen wearing a achromatic t garment and acheronian jogger-style pants. He wears a golden concatenation pinch a rhinestone transverse connected it, and nan Airbnb astatine which he was staying is located astatine Ronda de Sant Pere.
CNN’s David Gracey has said it is retired of characteristic for his nephew to beryllium retired of touch pinch family, adding that Jimmy Gracey is simply a responsible young man who helps his parents return attraction of his younger siblings.
ABC7 successful Chicago is reporting that authorities successful Spain person recovered Gracey’s wallet floating successful nan oversea adjacent Barcelona’s Somorrostro Beach. Police had already recovered Gracey’s phone, which had been stolen. The Catalan constabulary unit Mossos d’Esquadra is investigating.
Gracey’s aunt, Beth Marren O’Reilly, appearing coming connected CNN’s The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer, cautioned against believing “false information” connected various media outlets, though she wasn’t specific. “At this point, we’re only talking astir nan facts that we know,” she said, speaking for nan Gracey family. “So I would conscionable first be aware anybody to judge thing they’re reference online.”
O’Reilly described her nephew arsenic astir six ft tall, 175 pounds, wearing a achromatic t shirt, pinch “a mop of curly hair.”
“The constabulary are being very helpful,” O’Reilly said. “My brother-in-law [Jimmy Gracey’s father] is location successful Barcelona, moving intimately pinch them. Obviously, they’re trying to way down really nan telephone was identified and found, and really conscionable trying to thief america look everyplace for Jimmy.”
Said Blitzer, “And it’s truthful individual for truthful galore of america present astatine CNN, who’ve worked pinch his uncle David Gracey for years. He was my producer, and our hearts spell retired to nan full family.”
Anyone pinch accusation connected Jimmy Gracey’s whereabouts aliases imaginable sightings is asked to telephone 1-224-505-3886.
