Missing sleepwalking student located in downtown Athens

By Joe Johnson

Police Friday morning located a sleepwalking student within minutes of her being reported as missing by roommates.

The 18-year-old apparently left The Mark student apartments on Oconee Street at around 4:30 a.m., and she was reported missing to the Athens-Clarke County Police Department at 7:15 a.m.

Analysts with ACCPD’s Real Time Crime Center then sifted through three hours of public and private video surveillance footage and were able to track the pajama-clad young woman as she walked barefoot through the downtown area and within 16 minutes they located her at Jittery Joe’s on East Broad Street.

“She was still in a state of sleepwalking when located,” said Lt. Katie Jenkins.