The Rochester Institute of Technology student who was found safe Wednesday after going missing just before Thanksgiving released the following statement on Facebook:
“Hello everyone, Matthew Grant here. I want to say a huge thank you to everyone that helped in the search process. I feel incredibly grateful to have people like you all in my corner. It’s hard to understand just how much support you will have, regardless of how you are doing personally. I am doing much better now that I am reunited with my family. It means the world to me. I don’t have my phone right now but as soon as I do I will try and thank every person I can individually. I can’t say it enough, thank you so much.”
Grant was found in Pennsylvania, about 300 miles away from the Henrietta campus, by search and rescue teams after his car was found by police on Tuesday. Crews searched for several hours Wednesday and when Grant found out about the search himself, he went into a police station in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, and asked if he could make a phone call. Grant called his mom and said he was coming home.
Grant went missing on November 20th when he left his off-campus home
