BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Police have concluded that the death of a 20-year-old University of Alabama student on holiday in Spain was an accident, citing footage showing him falling into the ocean the night he went missing.
According to the newspaper El País, security camera footage from the early morning hours Tuesday showed James Paul Gracey walking alone towards the dock area at Port Olimpic in Barcelona before falling into the water.
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Gracey, a junior studying accounting at the University of Alabama, had gone to the Shôko nightclub, located off the water at Port Olimpic, on Monday night. He was last seen leaving the club with someone at approximately 3 a.m. Tuesday. His family declared him missing when he failed to return to the rental he was staying in.
By Thursday, the crews began searching for Gracey in the water along Somorrostro beach, near Port Olimpic. Initially finding his wallet floating in the water, police subsequently found Gracey in about 13 feet of water.
In a statement to the Associated Press, a local police spokesperson said “all signs point” to Gracey’s death being accidental…