he was not feeling well the prosecutors office said deland sounded ok and his family confirmed in a statement he is safe a surveillance camera captured him walking inside a sporting goods store on dec 3 deland called his father on friday after last being heard from nov 27 according to the grenoble prosecutor kenny is in spain and carol his mom is in france preparing to see kenny and hopefully bring him home for christmas delands family said in the statement which thanked various people including the fbi american legislators french officials and the involved schools in the us he was a senior at st john fisher university in rochester new york his parents said missing american study abroad student may have left willingly says french prosecutor a website delands family had launched for information posted friday that he has been found grenoble prosecutor eric vaillant said earlier this week that ken deland jr was having a hard time while living in france and expressed a desire to leave early missing american college student kenny deland jr has been located in spain three weeks after he walked away from the university of grenoble alpes and apparently stopped communicating with friends and family the message on the website stated deland jr reportedly told several people that he arrived in france insufficiently prepared and had a hard time making friends vaillant said earlier this week deland family deland jr was learning french abroad at the university of grenoble alpes through the study abroad program american institute for foreign study aifs a photo of ken deland provided by his family thank you to everyone for helping us bring kenny home according to his dad the last time his sons phone had pinged was on nov 30 without the medias help kenny would not have seen himself in the news and reached out to us the statement added he himself had mentioned that he wanted to leave earlier by going to marseille more his family had previously said they last heard from their son on the popular whatsapp messaging app after he left the home of his host and was headed on a train to valence france he was scheduled to leave france on dec 15 according to vaillant