Missing man found in Keizer

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A man missing from his family’s home in Tigard was found in Keizer Saturday morning.

Freddy Brockman, 33, left the Tigard home where he was staying on Tuesday and has not been seen since, according to police. A Keizer Police Officer responded to a call of a suspicious person at a retail center Saturday, according to police, and soon discovered Brockman was reported missing.
A Tigard Police Officer traveled to Keizer to pick up Brockman and return him to his family. Brockman is deaf and experiences related difficulties in communicating, according to police.

 

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Missing man walked 50 miles to Keizer

Missing man walked 50 miles to Keizer

A 33-year-old deaf man missing from Tigard since Monday was found, five days later, after he reportedly walked to Keizer.

Freddy Brockman, who had been visiting family in Tigard, reportedly walked from his sister's home in the 10700 block of Southwest 69th Avenue in Tigard almost 50 miles to Keizer.

Police received a call from Brockman's sister, Tuesday, saying that he had gone missing Jan. 31, the day after he arrived in Tigard from Alaska.

Brockman was unfamiliar with the area, said Tigard police spokesman Jim Wolf.

On Saturday morning a Keizer police officer --- responding to a call about a suspicious person at a retail center --- found Brockman who appeared in good spirits, Wolf said.

Brockman is deaf and possesses a limited vocabulary, Wolf said, and experiences related difficulties in communicating, but told police that he had walked to Keizer Brockman had been traveling without any money or credit card and had not eaten since leaving his sister's home on Tuesday.

A Tigard police officer traveled to Keizer to pick up Brockman and return him to his family. Tigard officers provided him with food once they got him back to the Tigard police station.

Wolf said that it wasn't clear why Brockman had walked almost 50 miles to Keizer, but did say that Brockman was unfamiliar with the area. "I'm not sure we'll ever really know," Wolf said.

One of Brockman's feet had been burned in a house fire earlier this week in Alaska, Wolf said, and a Tigard officer took Brockman to a medical facility to have his foot checked.

"I'm so pleased it worked out and that no harm had come to him," Wolf said.