A former Morehouse College basketball player has disappeared, and police Thursday said they were looking for him but had no leads.
Gerald Dunn, once a guard for the Maroon Tigers, was last seen at a hotel in downtown Atlanta last week. He was reported missing by an aunt in Hiram, where he was staying, said Cpl. Ashley Henson of Paulding County police. The family has not heard from Dunn since June 4, Henson said,
“He went missing in Atlanta,” Henson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Unfortunately we don’t have the resources to send someone to Atlanta. He added that a detective has been assigned to the case. “We really don’t have a lot of information.”
Police, however, said they have no reason to suspect foul play.
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 relatives search for the man. 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 planned to either go to medical school or join the Marines, his mother said. 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.
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