The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office was asking for the public’s help Friday in finding a Morehouse College graduate who disappeared while visiting Atlanta last week.
Police were concerned about the safety of Gerald Levert Dunn, whose family had not heard from him since his disappearance June 4, Deputy Cpl. Ashley Henson said
Dunn, once a guard for on the Maroon Tigers basketball team, was last seen at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Atlanta June 4, Henson said. He was reported missing by an aunt in Hiram, where he was staying, Henson said.
Both Atlanta and Morehouse police have assisted in the search but so far there are no viable leads, Henson said.
Dunn often travels by the Uber car service, Henson said. He is described as being an African-American male, 6 feet tall, 170 pounds with short hair and a basketball tattoo on his arm, Henson said.
Dunn stayed at the hotel because he wanted to get away from people, his cousin Valentina Burns told the AJC after arriving in Atlanta from her home in Dallas, Texas, to help in the search. He had taken off unannounced in the past but always before he had told his cousins where he was headed, said his mother, Edgar Jean Dunn.
“He will take off in a minute but his cousin would tell us and he said he hasn’t seen him,” the mother said. “He has a brother in California where he might have went, but he says he hasn’t heard from him.”
The family left him voice-mail messages until his phone stopped working Monday, Dunn said. He did not return any of the calls, she said.
Gerald Dunn graduated from Morehouse in 2014 and had plans planned to either go to medical school or join the Marines, his mother told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
His bio on the Morehouse basketball program listed him as a junior in 2011-2012 with an engineering major. He has had a job with Home Depot for a few months, Burns said.
Dunn had a court date last week involving a bar fight, and the case was resolved, his mother said. Dunn has also had other minor scrapes with the law, Henson said.
Anyone with information on Dunn is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Division at the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office at 770-443-3015 or your local 911.
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