A 22-year-old engineer for Netflix has mysteriously gone lacking, and now his household is desperately main an effort to seek out him.
Yohanes Kidane moved to California in late July to start out his profession as a software program engineer for the streaming powerhouse.
“He was tremendous excited to start out working at Netflix,” his brother Yosief advised NBC Information. “He was at all times speaking about how smart and succesful his coworkers had been.”
However solely per week after beginning his place, he disappeared. Police say the final time he was reportedly seen was getting right into a black Toyota sedan Uber on August 14 at round 7:15 p.m. outdoors his San Jose residence.
Unusual exercise on his mobile phone
In accordance with NBC, Kidane’s sister had been monitoring his location the night time he disappeared. She observed that he was close to the Golden Gate Bridge, about an hour away from his dwelling however nothing out of the extraordinary.
Nonetheless, his sister observed the telephone was nonetheless on the similar location the subsequent day.
“She’d been calling, attempting to see what he is doing. He by no means picked up,” Yosief stated. “She calls me, wakes me up earlier than I begin work, and we begin calling his telephone, calling mates, attempting to see the place he may very well be.”
When Kidane’s telephone began instantly transferring, they known as it and the person who answered stated they’d discovered his telephone and pockets on the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Middle.
The household alerted the police, who his a well being examine at Kidane’s residence however discovered nobody dwelling. Kidane additionally did not present as much as work the subsequent day.
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His household searches for him
The son of Eritrea immigrants, Kidane was raised in Rochester, New York. He graduated in Might with a level in laptop science from the Faculty of Engineering at Cornell College.
In accordance with NBC, he comes from a really close-knit household that may be very involved about him.
A number of members of the family, who all reside in East Coast, traveled to the Bay Space to assist discover Kidane, placing up fliers and contacting medical facilities, homeless shelters, mates, and members of the family.
“We’ll discover him and we will deliver him dwelling,” his brother stated. “We’re not going to cease. We all know our family and friends and the neighborhood isn’t going to cease.”
Kidane is described as a Black man, 5-foot-8, and 150 kilos. He was final seen sporting grey sweatpants, a black hoodie, and black footwear.
Anyone with info that may very well be used to assist discover Yohanes Kidane ought to contact the San Jose Police Division at 408-277-8900.
