Missing-Endangered Alert: 75-year-old man missing from Concord home
CONCORD, N.C. () — The public's help is requested in finding a Concord man who went missing Monday, according to Concord Police and the NC Center for Missing Persons.
Officials say 75-year-old Van Erwin Creel left his home on Belmont Court NW around 4:40 p.m. on Monday, March 24. He was last seen driving out of his neighborhood, onto Highway 73 and then onto Winecoff School Road.
Mr. Creel's family reported him missing, saying that he has a cognitive impairment. He was last seen wearing a green baseball hat, a green long-sleeved shirt with a blue stripe across the chest and with a white collar, blue sweatpants, and blue 'Hey Dude' shoes.
He is described as 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing about 165 pounds. He has blue eyes, white hair, a mustache and a light goatee.
Mr. Creel drives a white 1997 Nissan two-door pickup truck with the NC license plate XYL-7031 as well as an American flag sticker on the back window. He is known to often visit the Food Lion on Winecoff School Road and the What-A-Burger on North Cannon Boulevard in Kannapolis.
Anyone with information on Mr. Creel's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Concord Police at 704-920-5000.
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