James Hubert was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he is recovering. 
 
 A missing Georgia Tech student, found bloodied and bruised – but alive – along railroad tracks in Atlanta, will undergo surgery. 
 
 According to Jimmy Hubert's father, the student is in guarded condition and scheduled to have back surgery tomorrow. 
 
 Hubert, 24, was last seen Friday around 11 p.m. in the 900 block of Joseph Lowery Boulevard NW. Family members say he was attending a sorority event at Puritan Mill. 
 
 
 
 Police say the last GPS coordinates for Hubert's phone were on Auburn Avenue near DeKalb Avenue around 1 a.m. Saturday. 
 
 
 
 His disappearance set off a massive search by police and friends of Hubert, who eventually found him near DeKalb Avenue. 
 
 
 
 Authorities do not suspect foul play. 
 
 Just spoke with Jimmy Hubert's mom and brother. They posed for a photo with the two women who found him. #wsbtvpic.twitter.com/IDETuJt6w2 — Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) October 19, 2015 
 
 Police commended Hubert’s friends for their effort in the search. They said the students used technology to track the last "pings" from Hubert's cell phone. 
 
 Two of Hubert’s long time friends, Emma Jeffery and Alexandra Vanderlinde, used the “Find my IPhone” app to locate the last place his phone was before it went dead. 
 
 Georgia Tech Police chief says other than MIT or Cal Tech students, no other student body could have tracked down the missing student. — Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) October 19, 2015 
 
 The app showed them a desolate location along some railroad tracks at DeKalb Avenue and Arizona Avenue. 
 
 After some searching, Jeffery said they discovered Hubert lying face down in a ditch. 
 
 Missing GT student's friend tells me a group of them searching the RR tracks found him in a ditch this morning. #wsbtv — Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) October 19, 2015 
 
 “We were about to turn around and then there was a shaded area over in a ditch, and I said, ‘What’s that?’" Jeffery said. 
 
 “And sure enough, it was Jimmy. He was laying face down. His head was turned to the side. His eyes were open. He wasn’t speaking at first. I just made sure he was okay. He opened his eyes, and then he just said, ‘Where am I? Am I missing?’ I was like, 'Yeah. You’ve been gone since Friday night.'” 
 
 Jeffery said Hubert claimed he was beaten by a group of homeless men after he left the party. Police are investigating those claims. 
 
 Hubert’s mother is glad to have him back. 
 
 “He’s hurt, but he’s alive,” said Didi Hubert. “He’s breathing, and he’s on morphine, so he’s resting peacefully.” 
 
 Monday night, Didi Hubert posted on Facebook, "He was mugged robbed and had the **** beaten out of him. He's in ICU with broken vertebrae, broken ribs, broken scapula, punctured lung, blood on the brain, paralyzed left side (Hopefully temporary). He's in a lot of pain and on morphine resting. He left the formal and took MARTA to get home. To set the record straight he was NOT ON DRUGS, he was NOT DRUNK. He left the formal alone and jumped on MARTA. When he got off the train he was jumped, beaten up, robbed and left for dead. End of story." 
 
 Georgia Tech released a statement thanking those who found Hubert. 
 
 “Thanks goes to the students for not giving up on their friend,” said Rob Connolly, chief of the Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD), who was among those that responded to the scene. 

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 A Georgia Tech student missing since Friday was found Monday morning along railroad tracks in Atlanta, badly injured but alive, police said. 
 
 Jimmy Hubert, 24, an aerospace engineering student and Phi Delta Theta fraternity brother, was last seen leaving a Greek party Friday night at 11 p.m., according to Georgia Tech. He was found early Monday by a friend, Emma Jeffery. 
 
 "Emma calls me, hysterical, that they found him and he is not responding," Christian Battaglia, 21, one of Hubert's fraternity brothers, told NBC News. "Everyone in the house heard me crying out." 
 
 Battaglia and other friends raced to the spot where Jeffery had found Hubert as they waited for an ambulance. Hubert was face-down on the tracks, Battaglia said, covered in blood. 
 
 "His right eye was badly bruised," he said. "His face was just really messed up — dried blood all over his lips. ... He had some stuff on his back that looked like dried blood." 
 
 Police did not provide details about Hubert's condition, but Hubert's mom, Diane Hubert, said on Facebook that he was attacked after taking the train home from the party and "mugged robbed and had the s*** beaten out of him." 
 
 "He's in ICU with broken vertebrae, Broken ribs, Broken scapula, Punctured Lung, Blood on the brain, Paralyzed left side (Hopefully temporary). He's in a lot of pain and on morphine resting," she wrote. 
 
 "When he got off the train he was JUMPED BEATEN UP ROBBED & LEFT FOR DEAD," she said. 
 
 Hubert was taken to a local hospital, Battaglia said. He can speak, but with difficulty. 
 
 "Due to his injuries, we have not been able to interview Mr. Hubert about the circumstances over the last few days," Atlanta police spokesperson Elizabeth Espy said in a statement. 
 
 Jimmy Hubert, seen here running a 5K race, went missing Friday night after a party. He was found badly injured on Monday morning. Jerod Ray 
 
 Jeffery, the friend who found him, told NBC affiliate WXIA Hubert's date had left her phone in Hubert's pocket, and that they located him nearly seven miles away from the party along the train through the Find My iPhone app. She said Hubert was struggling to remember what had happened. 
 
 "We've gotten out of him, 'I was jumped by a homeless person,'" Jeffery said. "Then we got, he 'was beat up by a group of people,' then he said he was 'hit by a train', but we think he heard the trains going by, just lying there helpless. 
 
 "I can't decide if I think he walked the train tracks or he was placed there. Because his shoes were not on his feet. All of his belongings — his wallet, phone is gone. He said he was beat up, so I think he was mugged and maybe dumped there." 
 
 Battaglia said neither of the two phones was found on Hubert, and that the Find My iPhone app placed them several hundred yards away from where they discovered him. His mom said on Facebook that no drugs or alcohol were involved. 
 
 Lance Wallace, a Georgia Tech spokesman, told NBC News that because the incident happened off-campus, the Atlanta police department had "taken over the investigation to figure out what happened." 
 
 Hubert, an undergraduate, is enrolled in a co-operative education internship program through his aerospace engineer major, Wallace said. Because the program combines classroom and real work experience, it sometimes takes students more than four years to complete. 
 
 "Thanks go to the students for not giving up on their friend," Rob Connolly, chief of the Georgia Tech Police Department, said in a statement. 

 A college student who went missing after a sorority semi-formal was found by his friends two days later, lying face down in a ditch next to train tracks. 
 
 Jimmy Hubert, an engineering student at Georgia Tech, was last seen Friday evening. His friends worked through the weekend to piece together Hubert's steps by using the tracking device on his date's iPhone. 
 
 "It all relates back to the fact that Jimmy had his date's phone in his pocket at the event," Hubert’s friend Christian Battaglia told ABC News. 
 
 Because Hubert unintentionally left the party with his date’s phone, his friends were able to track the phone’s movements using the Find My iPhone app that Hubert's date had installed on her device. A screen grab of the phone's last known ping, or location, was taken before the phone ran out of battery or was turned off, Battaglia said. 
 
 That information proved critical for the search. Emma Jeffery, a friend of Hubert, told ABC station WSB in Atlanta on Monday that she went looking for Hubert in the area where the last ping was detected. 
 
 "We were about to turn around and then I said there was a shaded area you know over in the ditch and I said ‘What’s that?’ and then sure enough it was Jimmy," she said. 
 
 Courtesy of Christian Battaglia 
 
 "I thought he was gone," she continued. "He was face down, laying down, face down, his head was turned to the side, his eyes were open, he wasn’t speaking at first." 
 
 Another friend, Alexandra Vande Linde, told WSB that Hubert appeared disorientated and confused. 
 
 "He opened his eyes and then he just said 'Where am I? Am I missing,'" she said. 
 
 Hubert, 24, was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta for medical treatment. 
 
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 Battaglia, who has visited Hubert in the hospital, said Hubert was “able to wiggle all of his fingers and toes but was having trouble breathing." 
 
 The Atlanta Police Department confirmed to ABC News that there is an active investigation into Hubert’s disappearance. 
 
 "[Hubert's rescue] is all credited to our students not giving up on their friend,” Robert Connolly, Georgia Tech's chief of police, said at a press conference Monday. 
 
 Battaglia said he believes Hubert may have been robbed and noted that Hubert's and his date's phones were missing. 
 
 Battaglia told ABC News that Hubert is being treated for broken vertebrae, broken ribs, a punctured lung and cerebral hemorrhaging in the emergency room. Hubert’s mother Didi is directing all media inquiries to Battaglia and other friends.
– A couple of tenacious women armed with the Find My iPhone app tracked down their severely injured friend Sunday, two days after he disappeared following a sorority party at Georgia Tech, WSB Atlanta reports. According to ABC News, it was extremely fortunate 24-year-old Jimmy Hubert accidentally left the party with his date's phone in his pocket. His friends Emma Jeffery and Alexandra Vanderlinde used the app installed by his date to track Hubert to a desolate stretch along some train tracks, WSB reports. That's where they found him face down in a ditch and barely conscious. "[Hubert's rescue] is all credited to our students not giving up on their friend,” ABC quotes Georgia Tech's chief of police during a press conference Monday. ABC reports Hubert was found with broken ribs and vertebrae, a punctured lung, and cerebral hemorrhaging. According to WSB, authorities don't suspect foul play, but his friends claim Hubert told them he was beaten by a group of homeless men after he left the party. NBC News reports they also admit he said he was hit by a train, but they think he was confused when he said that. According to WSB, Hubert's mother posted on Facebook that he was mugged. NBC reports Hubert was missing his shoes, wallet, and both phones when he was found. Police have yet to be able to interview Hubert because of the extent of his injuries.