A 73-year-old man with dementia has been lacking for 3 days throughout this punishing warmth wave, and a frantic search is underway.
For years, retired truck driver Frankie Jones Sr. mounted automobiles for neighbors in Southwest D.C., letting folks pay him what they might for his work. Now, a lacking individual flyer is on each door of the Galveston Road SW condominium complicated the place Jones lives along with his fiancée and members of the family who love and look after him.
Jones walked out the entrance door Tuesday at 4 p.m. and didn’t return.
He usually went to the parking zone to tinker with the household automobiles — a capability he retains as he struggles with cognitive decline, stated his daughter Julia Marsh.
“We don’t know what route he went in, so we’re simply actually attempting to determine if he’s on this space someplace, within the woods someplace,” she stated. “Perhaps he’s someplace misplaced, don’t know find out how to discover his manner again.”
The household has searched in every single place they will consider, together with close by auto elements shops and automobile restore outlets. Locations they assume Jones can be drawn to.
They fear about him being on the market alone and certain confused within the scorching, doubtlessly lethal warmth.
“It’s been sizzling for the previous few days, 100 levels, and we nonetheless don’t know the place he’s,” his daughter stated. “This isn’t like him. It’s not like him to stroll away and never return.”
Jones stands 5-feet-11-inches tall and weighs 160 kilos. He was final seen sporting a lightweight blue shirt, blue denims and black-and-white slides.
Anybody who sees Jones ought to name the D.C. police Actual Time Crime Heart at (202) 727-9099. If he seems to be at risk, name 911.
