On August 26, the Peru Police Department discovered a vehicle concealed in a wooded area behind the local YMCA. 'That is not at all something our grad students would do,' Boester said. She contacted campus police when Day didn’t turn up for their meeting.

ISU’s Director of Clinical Education Cara Boester told local station WEEK that she’d exchanged texts with Day on August 23 and they planned to meet the following morning. Jelani Day has an apartment in Bloomington and is studying in the Communication, Science and Disorders Department at Illinois State University in Normal. And if anyone out there has seen him or knows anything at all, please call the police. Something’s not right.We love him and miss him. “So to not hear from him in a week is very unlike him. “He just calls me and calls me, nonstop, several times a day,” Carmen Day told NBC’s “Dateline,” adding that because of the call frequency she refers to her son as her bill collector. Attempts to locate him were unsuccessful and he was soon reported as missing under unknown circumstances by his family and an ISU faculty member, according to the Bloomington Police Department.

Since then, the Illinois State University graduate student has not been in touch with any family members and didn't attend any classes. Jelani “J.J.” Day, 25, last spoke with members of his family on August 23, according to his mother. The mother of a missing Illinois graduate student is making a public plea for any information about her missing son, whose car was discovered concealed in the woods.

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