A Georgia State University student missing since Friday has been located safe, police said Tuesday evening.
For confidentiality reasons, Monique Priester’s location was not disclosed, Gwinnett police Cpl. Michelle Pihera said in a statement.
Earlier Tuesday, police had said that Priester, who had been missing since Friday, may have left home voluntarily.
Priester, 21, told her mother she was on the university’s downtown Atlanta campus and planning to catch an Uber back to the family’s Dacula home. She’d taken one from Gwinnett to Georgia State earlier in the day, apparently without incident. On the return trip, she said she was going to ride with other people, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Police offered a different version of events on Tuesday.
They said Priester got in an argument with her stepfather Friday and left the family’s Dacula home. Her mother, Jacquelin Vanloo-Alkush, said she later talked to Priester by phone about 6:30 p.m. Friday. Priester then told her mother she was taking an Uber with some other people to the GSU campus, not back to Gwinnett, police said.
Since then, there has been no contact with Priester, and her phone has been turned off.
Also, a police investigator received information to believe that Priester’s ATM card was used at a grocery store ATM in Nashville, Tenn.
Priester has been placed on a national database as a missing person. Also, Uber has reached out to police to assist in the investigation, Gwinnett police said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Gwinnett police at 770-513-5300.
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