ATLANTA — The family of a missing Morehouse College student says his disappearance is a mystery.
Roswell police are actively searching for 22-year-old Ben Jones. Jones' family is passing out fliers in an effort to find him.
Police aren't sure if he's missing because of foul play or because he didn't want to break his family's heart and tell them he wasn't graduating after all.
"For him to stay away for four days over the disappointment of that would be very, very much unlike him," Jones' father said.
Richard Jones doesn't think his son has disappeared because he learned he wouldn't be graduating and family had arrived from all over to celebrate.
He says he isn't sure his son even knew he hadn't completed the requirements to graduate.
But Roswell police told Channel 2's Tom Jones the Morehouse senior told his father he was going to pick up his graduation tickets on Friday. That's when he vanished.
"We haven't been able to reach him by phone, text. No one has seen or talked to him," his father said.
Jones says Morehouse Police texted his son on Saturday and got a strange text in response.
"They got a text from his phone saying, 'I can't call right now but I'm on the way,'" he said.
Richard Jones says his son is a good kid who would never leave his family worrying like this.
He has a message for his son: "Anything that you might be going through; anything you're dealing with, we can work it out," he said.
Police say they got a ping from Jones' phone Saturday indicating he was at a hotel in Buckhead. He wasn't there when they arrived.
Officers say they're not sure what's going on, but they are treating this as a missing-person case right now.
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