News of people going missing keeps soaring by the day, and most often, it is kids that are reported missing. For someone as old as Yohanes Kidane, 22, to be reported missing, is not something that should be taken lightly, and that is why the search for the Netflix engineer has intensified, with a reported $70,000 raised to be used in the search for him.
He has not been seen for some time now, and people have been asking about where he was last seen before nobody set eyes on him again. In this report, we bring you what he has gathered so far. We will also delve into who he is, and what he had been up to prior to going missing.
Yohanes Kidane Missing: The Details
Just weeks after starting a new job at Netflix, a missing New York engineer inexplicably vanished after taking a rideshare to San Francisco. More than $70,000 has been contributed to support the search for him. Yohanes Kidane, 22, who was last seen getting into an Uber on the evening of August 14, is still unaccounted for as his family begs for additional help on a GoFundMe page.
The GoFundMe account has received $74,000 as of Tuesday morning for travel, private detectives, attorneys, and other resources for the search, according to its description. “A search effort by his family, friends, and peers is underway,” it states, adding, “We cannot express enough gratitude for any help you can provide.”
After sharing his hesitation about using ridesharing services alone following a “strange encounter” with an Uber driver, Yohanes Kidane vanished a few days later. The Saturday before he vanished, Kidane was trying to return home when he had an unexpected and uneasy trip with an Uber driver who insisted on taking a different route to his San Jose residence.
“The driver was insistent on taking him through Oakland, and Yohanes, suspicious of his intentions, was finally able to cancel his ride after crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge,” the GoFundMe said. “After this ordeal, he expressed his hesitancy about ridesharing alone,” according to the page.
Days after expressing his reservations about ridesharing, Yohanes Kidane was seen on surveillance footage leaving his apartment in downtown San Jose and getting into a car with an Uber sticker on the side. “Two young colleagues of his saw him and were able to talk to him,” Kidane’s brother Yosief told KTVU. “He said he was heading to San Francisco to maybe meet a friend. The last footage I’ve seen of him was leaving his apartment building and getting into a black Toyota Camry.”
Yohanes Kidane, a software engineer who had recently been employed by the streaming giant after moving from Webster, New York, to the Bay Area in July, was in his second week of employment there.
Where Was Yohanes Kidane Last Seen?
Yohanes Kidane spent the majority of the night of August 14 at the Golden Gate Bridge, according to his phone’s location. But in accordance with the fundraiser and a missing person poster issued by his brother, his personal items were eventually discovered the following morning close to the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center in San Francisco.
Kidane, a black man with a height of 5 feet 8 inches, a weight of around 150 pounds, and who graduated from Cornell University in May, was last seen wearing grey sweatpants, a black sweatshirt, and black sneakers.
“The investigation has uncovered no evidence to suggest that a crime has occurred,” the San Jose police said. “San Jose Detectives have kept Mr. Kidane’s family advised of all pertinent developments in the case. The case will remain open until Mr. Kidane is located.”
Hopefully, he gets found.
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