This is not my message but I copied and pasted it from fb
The only details we have publicly known are what was said the first day...it's been a month and nothing has been publicly updated...it was said he had his phone with him but it was turned off at 10:00am, presumably because he was sitting for a placement test at Mercer.
During the course of this search, I have been contacted by various people close to the investigation. This is what I have gathered and feel confident about posting publicly, but this is not official timeline, it is the best that I have been able to put together.
The surveillance photos at the student welcome center are timestamped 3;07pm and that Nick was expecting his Dad to pick him up at 3:30pm after his placement test from earlier in the day ...his sister last heard from him around 3:45 when he responded to her message in regards to signing him up for a West Side Story audition. He was all for it. She messaged him that their father was on his way after that, and the messages were delivering but he was not responding. Nick said he would wait. Nicks last reply message that Nick sent was "4ish", but i don't know what the message was...His dad arrived around 4pm and couldnt find Nick. His dad contacted other family members in the area to come over to the school to help look for him. Then after 6:50ish, his phone registered as offline. The police rechecked the last location ping, and his phone was pinged a little before 4 near the solar panels on the campus.
Family showed up on the campus shortly after and searched for him until 12am. Between 4pm and 12am, his family looked for him, tried to get the MCCC security to help them search and check the cameras, and searched not only inside the building, but around the park and outer areas of campus as well. Police were also asked to help but they couldn't do anything because of his age and the protocol in general for missing persons. Police were notified immediately but he was not declared missing by officials until 10pm that night. Nicks parents went back to MCCC and the park around 2am to continue searching for him as well. No one went back home after realizing Nicky was not on the campus. The five days following Nicky being declared missing were spent sending out search parties all over the campus, the Marina/Lake, and MCCC park. My source told me they had over 200+ at each search.
The officials did not get involved until two days later after a search party member found his ID by the Old Trenton Road entrance. An police official came to collect the evidence without proper collection materials, so the evidence was tampered with and not handled with care. Members of the search party guarded his ID as well to make sure that no one would touch it to avoid any implications. Interestingly, the last location ping by the police was at 4pm near the solar panels, which is on the opposite side of the campus from where the ID was found.
Because Nicky is an 18 year old, the police were not taking his case seriously at first, but now they finally are starting to because it has been a month. Most of the heavy legwork has been done by his family and search parties, who spend two weeks constantly searching the areas. Dogs came to sense him, but they did not give clear results because the area already had people on to confuse the scent (classes for students and the Italian Festival).
The family understands that Nick is 18 and does not need to return home, but because it is way out of character, they just want to know that he is safe or if he is in a negative situation.
