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Missing American University student Kris Estrada found four days after eerie final sighting by heartbroken roommate
Estrada's roommate updated the public on the teen's status
THE four-day search for a 19-year-old college student has ended after the teen was found safe.
Kris Estrada, who went missing on July 25 in Northwest Washington DC, was located safely, campus police confirmed to The U.S. Sun.
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Nolan Lee, Estrada's roommate, confirmed the news in a social media post, revealing the teen was in a secure location.
"We want to thank everyone who helped throughout this process. Dozens of you reached out to us with ways to help locate him and more than 90 of you (some who didn't know us) wanted to provide us an ear to listen, or a shoulder to cry on throughout all of this," Lee wrote in an Instagram post.
"We have literally never seen such an outpour of love and community, and neither of us take it for granted.
"Our deepest gratitude to all those who reposted the graphics, who prayed for his return, and who did everything they could to bring him home."
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Additional details about where Estrada was located were not immediately provided by the American University Police Department.
Estrada went missing on July 25 and was last spotted near a Wagshal’s grocery store in Northwest Washington DC.
Friends of the 19-year-old were worried after they couldn't get in touch with the teen.
"We do not know where he is, who he is with, or where he would be," Lee previously said in an Instagram post.
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Lee said Estrada's parents are working alongside American University police and DC Metro police to help locate the missing teen.
"We are hoping this post is only temporary and that our brother comes home soon, but in the meantime, please, save, screenshot, and share this information as widely as you can," the devastated roommate pleaded.
Estrada told his friends he would return on the evening of July 25 but never did.
"We have not been about to contact our friend, Kris Estrada, (an AU Student) since 4 PM on Thursday, when he told us he would be back by the end of the night," friend Kaden Ouimet posted on social media on Sunday.
Estrada is a sophomore at American University and is originally from Santa Clara, California, according to the school newspaper The Eagle Online.
"We are working to obtain more information about reports of a student potentially being missing," Matthew Bennett, American University's vice president and chief communications officer, told ABC affiliate WUSA.
Bennett added that school police and the Division of Student Affairs have activated the university's missing persons protocol.
What we know about Kris Estrada's disappearance
Kris Estrada, 19, was last seen on July 25 near a Wagshal’s grocery store in Northwest Washington DC.
What we know so far:
- Estrada told his friends he'd be back by the evening of July 25 but he never returned
- Nolan Lee, Estrada's roommate, is worried because he has not been able to contact the 19-year-old.
- "We do not know where he is, who he is with, or where he would be," Nolan Lee, Estrada's roommate, said in an Instagram post.
- Friend Kaden Ouimet said he has not been able to reach Estrada since 4 pm on July 25.
- Matthew Bennett, American University's vice president and chief communications officer, said the school has activated its missing persons protocol.
- "We are working to obtain more information about reports of a student potentially being missing," Bennett told ABC affiliate WUSA.
- American University police confirmed to The U.S. Sun that Kris Estrada was located safely.