Where is University of Alabama student Jimmy Gracey? That is the question troubling both sides of the Atlantic after the 20‑year‑old vanished in the early hours in Barcelona, with Spanish police now in possession of his mobile phone but no clear trace of the missing Spring Breaker.
For context, Jimmy Gracey, whose full name is James Paul Gracey, had travelled from his hometown of Elmhurst, Illinois, to Spain to visit friends studying abroad during Spring Break, according to his mother, Therese Marren Gracey. In a series of urgent social media appeals, she said her son had gone out with friends on Monday night in Barcelona but never returned to the Airbnb he had booked for 16 March. Family members say he was later reported missing to local police.
