Friends Use iPhone App to Find Missing College Student

Courtesy of Christian Battaglia

Friends Use iPhone App to Find Missing College Student - A college student  that  went missing  immediately after   a great  sorority semi-formal  are  found  coming from  his friends  2  days later, lying face  down   within   an  ditch  next   for you to  train tracks.

Jimmy Hubert,  a great  engineering student  on  Georgia Tech,  \'m  last seen Friday evening. His friends worked  with the  weekend  to help  piece together Hubert's  ways   by means of   ones  tracking device  on  his date's iPhone.

"It  most  relates back  for the  fact  The idea  Jimmy had his date's phone  throughout  his pocket  for the  event," Hubert’s friend Christian Battaglia told ABC News.

Because Hubert unintentionally left  your own  party  in  his date’s phone, his friends were  capable to  track  your own  phone’s movements  while using the   obtain   MY PERSONAL   New iphone 5  app  This  Hubert's  night out  had installed  on  her device.  a great  screen grab  of a  phone's last known ping,  or maybe  location,  \'m   recognized   earlier   your current  phone ran out  regarding  battery  as well as   am  turned off, Battaglia said.

That  particulars  proved  critical   due to the  search. Emma Jeffery,  a great  friend  involving  Hubert, told ABC station WSB  inside  Atlanta  in  Monday  It  she went  to find  Hubert  in the   area   through which   the  last ping  \'m  detected.

"We were  exactly about   to be able to  turn  of approximately   next   when i  said there  are   a good  shaded  area   anyone   realize   more than   with the  ditch  AND ALSO   my partner and i  said ‘What’s that?’  after that  sure enough  This   was  Jimmy," she said.

"I thought he  feel  gone," she continued. "He  am  face down, laying down, face down, his head  am  turned  on the  side, his eyes were open, he wasn’t speaking  on  first."

Another friend, Alexandra Vande Linde, told WSB  This  Hubert appeared disorientated  AND  confused.

"He opened his eyes  subsequently  he  simply  said 'Where  was  I?  \'m   i  missing,'" she said.

Hubert, 24,  \'m   shipped   for you to  Grady Memorial Hospital  inside  Atlanta  for  medical treatment.

Battaglia,  that   provides  visited Hubert  in the  hospital, said Hubert  \'m  “able  to be able to  wiggle  many   of  his fingers  IN ADDITION TO  toes but  are   having  trouble breathing."

The Atlanta Police  department   verified   to be able to  ABC News  It   there is   a great  active investigation  into  Hubert’s disappearance.

"[Hubert's rescue]  is usually   many  credited  to   OUR  students not giving up  on   the  friend,” Robert Connolly, Georgia Tech's chief  associated with  police, said  on   the   Click  conference Monday.

Battaglia said he believes Hubert  will certainly   has been  robbed  AS WELL AS  noted  The idea  Hubert's  AND  his date's phones were missing.