Smartphone app finds missing student in Georgia railroad ditch


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015

Helping hands: His concerned friends' persistence and a smartphone app helped locate a missing student in Atlanta, who was found injured but alive in a railroad ditch.

ATLANTA: Atlanta police were looking into what happened to a Georgia Institute of Technology student missing for several days until he was found injured but alive in a railroad ditch by friends using a smartphone app, a police spokesman said. 

James “Jimmy” Hubert, a senior studying aerospace engineering, went missing after a sorority semi-formal function near campus in Atlanta, where he was last seen about 11pm on Oct 16 (11am Oct 17 Malaysian time), said Georgia Tech Police Chief Robert Connolly in a news release. 

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