An American college pupil visiting associates for spring break has gone missing in Spain, his family mentioned, including police there have his cellphone.
James “Jimmy” Gracey, a 20-year-old junior on the University of Alabama, was last seen by a buddy round 3 a.m. native time Tuesday outdoors Barcelona’s Shoko membership on fashionable Barceloneta Beach, relations mentioned in an announcement.
He was reported missing after he didn’t return that morning to his short-term rental, his mom, Therese Gracey, mentioned in a put up on Facebook.
Police have James Gracey’s cellphone, based on his mom, who mentioned it was recovered after being stolen. The Catalan police pressure, Mossos d’Esquadra, is investigating, it mentioned with out offering extra particulars.
NCS has reached out to the State Department for remark and to the nightclub to find out how they’re working with authorities.
Gracey, of Chicago-suburban Elmhurst, Illinois, was visiting associates who’re finding out overseas, based on his family, which is pleading for the general public’s assist in discovering him.
The college pupil on Monday evening wore a white shirt, darkish pants and a series with a gold rhinestone cross. He is about 6-foot-1 and 175 kilos, his family mentioned.
While Gracey was on a private journey, University of Alabama “staff are in touch with the family and those associated with them to offer support and assistance in any way possible,” the college instructed NCS.
Gracey, the eldest of 5 kids, had a flight booked for Saturday to journey again to the United States on Saturday, based on his uncle, David Gracey, who’s a NCS senior producer in Washington DC.
He isn’t recognized to be out of contact with family, David Gracey mentioned of his nephew, noting he’s an avid hockey participant and a accountable younger man who helps his mother and father care for his youthful siblings.
At the University of Alabama, James Gracey is a member of Theta Chi fraternity, his uncle mentioned. NCS has reached out to the fraternity’s chapter for remark.
Last yr, one other US college pupil went missing whereas on spring break.
Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh pupil vanished on the seashore of the Riu República Hotel in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic early on March 6, 2025. Her disappearance prompted a frantic search by air, sea and land, involving authorities from the United States, the Dominican Republic and India, the place Konanki’s family is initially from. She remains missing.
The US State Department has recommendations for how one can keep protected touring overseas and what to do if a cherished one goes missing. If a US citizen relative or buddy is just not responding to communications, officers advocate notifying the police, each in the placement the place they have been last recognized to be or the place you suppose they’re missing, and the State Department’s Overseas Citizens Services workplace in Washington, DC, or your nearest US Embassy or Consulate. From the US and Canada, the Overseas Citizens Services workplace might be contacted at 1-888-407-4747.