Netflix software engineer missing after he’s last seen getting into Uber, weeks after starting new job

A New York man who just lately landed a job at Netflix in California proper out of faculty disappeared after he was final seen stepping into an Uber earlier this week.

Yohanes Kidane, 22, was captured on safety digital camera leaving his condominium constructing in downtown San Jose round 7:15 p.m. on Monday earlier than he stepped right into a automobile that bore an Uber sticker, his household told KTVU.

“Two younger colleagues of his noticed him and had been capable of speak to him,” Kidane’s brother, Yosief, mentioned. “He mentioned he was heading to San Francisco to possibly meet a good friend. The final footage I’ve seen of him was leaving his condominium constructing and getting right into a black Toyota Camry.” 

Kidane had simply moved to the Bay Space in July and was in his second week on the streaming large the place he labored as a software program engineer.

His mobile phone, pockets and backpack had been discovered close to the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Heart in San Francisco, in keeping with a lacking individuals poster shared by Yosief Kidane.

Kidane’s cellphone’s location confirmed he was on the Golden Gate Bridge nearly all of Monday night time.

“Somebody who was in San Rafael, who was on a commute, noticed a cellphone and pockets sitting on this small grassy hill proper between the Welcome Heart and occasional store,” Kidane’s brother instructed the station. “Thirty bucks in money was in his pockets, IDs playing cards, cellphone untouched.” 

The backpack was discovered the subsequent day nearer to the bridge and it contained two of his laptops and private paperwork.

Kidane, who graduated from Cornell College in Might, is described as 5’8″, 150 kilos, and was final seen sporting grey sweatpants, a black hoodie and black footwear.

His distraught mom pleaded for her son’s return

“We wish to take him dwelling. I would like my son. I would like my son,” Mehret Hana Beyene instructed KTVU. “He’s a very good man who has a vivid future, very loving to his household.” 

A bunch of Kidane’s associates and family members created a activity pressure to seek for him, contacted San Jose Police and created a GoFundMe.

“Yohanes has gone lacking in San Francisco. This fundraiser is for masking journey bills for his household as they seek for him,” the crowdfunding web page mentioned.

Kidane’s former school roommate says the Rochester native instructed a narrative a couple of suspicious Uber trip that happened simply days earlier than he disappeared.

“The Uber driver insisted, if it was an precise Uber driver, that as a substitute of taking him to the situation that he wanted to be, he’s like, ‘Oh, I’m going to take you to Oakland. It’s a lot safer there,’” Austin Farmer told Fox News.

“And he simply wouldn’t let Yohanes go the place he wanted to go. In order that they took him to downtown Oakland. I suppose he ultimately bought again to his condominium or wherever he lives, however that was fairly suspicious.”

Kidane had allegedly texted Farmer throughout that journey saying he “could be in bother” and the motive force instructed him to cancel the additional pay.

“I bought a way he’s taking me there for no good motive,” Kidane mentioned.

When he bought again to San Jose, Kidane mentioned he was “By no means stepping into Uber solo once more in SF.”