Barcelona Police Searching For Missing Alabama College Student Find Body At Beach

Barcelona constabulary searching for a missing University of Alabama student who vanished from a nightclub early Tuesday morning said they recovered a assemblage astatine Somorrostro Beach.

Catalan Police told NBC News that nan assemblage was recovered Thursday astir 6 p.m. section time. An personality has not been confirmed.

James Paul Gracey, a inferior accounting major, was past seen astatine Shoko, a beachfront nightclub successful Villa Olimpica successful Spain, his parents, Taras and Therese Gracey, said successful a statement.

Gracey was wearing a achromatic shirt, acheronian pants, and a concatenation pinch a golden rhinestone transverse erstwhile he went missing.

James Paul Gracey.Therese Marren Gracey

Cavin McLay, nan president of nan university’s Theta Chi fraternity, said Gracey was pinch a group astatine nan nine and they sewage separated, “and that was nan past clip they saw him.”

McLay said he is successful Barcelona, but is not staying pinch nan aforesaid group of friends arsenic Gracey. He said astir 10 group are successful Barcelona visiting a fewer fraternity members who are studying abroad.

Police successful Barcelona said they had received a telephone astir a imaginable disappearance of a personification who went missing astir 3 a.m. Tuesday successful nan Port Olímpic area. His aunt, Beth Marren O’Reilly, told NBC News that Gracey’s parents became concerned aft they received a “phone telephone that his telephone was picked up.”

“It’s 1 of those things you deliberation isn’t going to hap to your family but correct now we conscionable really want to get nan connection out, get his image retired location and conscionable request anybody that mightiness person seen him nan different nighttime aliases ran into him and are acrophobic because they were doing thing they shouldn’t have, conscionable please travel forward,” she said.

Gracey is from nan Chicago suburb of Elmhurst. The assemblage said he was connected a “personal trip” erstwhile he disappeared.

“We are keeping Jimmy and his family astatine nan forefront of our thoughts, and our unit are successful nonstop connection pinch nan family to connection each support and assistance possible,” a assemblage spokesperson said successful a connection Thursday. “Anyone pinch accusation that whitethorn thief is encouraged to interaction section authorities. The information and well-being of each our students, present and abroad, are ever nan University’s apical priority.”