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Without the quick work of the staff at a local "Jack In The Box"--- a Longview missing man might still be searching for shelter and food.
"How I got him over here is I asked him, do you want to eat, and so he came over here and we got him something to eat." says Renalda Ward.
37 year--old Richard Kent had been missing for more than 24 hours from the group home where he lives when he turned up outside the Jack In The Box restaurant. Employee Renalda Ward suspected it was him.
"I was very happy about it, you know, because when the police came here, they said yes it was," says Ward. A few grainy pictures is all caretakers had to identify Kent. And they had some other major concerns.
"Mentally challenged, he's deaf, he's mute," says one caretaker. According to a police report, Kent simply walked out of this residence on Longview's glenda street--right under the nose of the staff. He had no money and just a bag of clothes with him.
"The staff went to the restroom, was gone about five minutes--then did a head count and he was gone,"says Renea Sartain. But that account goes against the police report, which says Kent was gone for thirty minutes before the staff reported it.
"That's just not what I was told," says administrator Renae Sartain. She says she first wanted to focus on getting Kent back safely. Now that's done, she says, she's looking into the time discrepency.
"I 'll go back and get a time line and discuss that. There will be an investigation," says Sartain.
Without the quick work of the staff at a local "Jack In The Box"--- a Longview missing man might still be searching for shelter and food.
"How I got him over here is I asked him, do you want to eat, and so he came over here and we got him something to eat." says Renalda Ward.
37 year--old Richard Kent had been missing for more than 24 hours from the group home where he lives when he turned up outside the Jack In The Box restaurant. Employee Renalda Ward suspected it was him.
"I was very happy about it, you know, because when the police came here, they said yes it was," says Ward. A few grainy pictures is all caretakers had to identify Kent. And they had some other major concerns.
"Mentally challenged, he's deaf, he's mute," says one caretaker. According to a police report, Kent simply walked out of this residence on Longview's glenda street--right under the nose of the staff. He had no money and just a bag of clothes with him.
"The staff went to the restroom, was gone about five minutes--then did a head count and he was gone,"says Renea Sartain. But that account goes against the police report, which says Kent was gone for thirty minutes before the staff reported it.
"That's just not what I was told," says administrator Renae Sartain. She says she first wanted to focus on getting Kent back safely. Now that's done, she says, she's looking into the time discrepency.
"I 'll go back and get a time line and discuss that. There will be an investigation," says Sartain.