A 68-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer's has not been seen since Thursday afternoon, Cobb County police said Friday.

Willie B. Gordon, of Marietta, was last seen in the Horseshoe Bend Shopping Center on Powder Springs Road, his family told police.

Gordon is a described as a black male, 6-feet-2 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds with receding hair and a mustache, Officer Joseph Hernandez with Cobb police said. Gordon was last seen wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, green pants, beige shoes and a beige ball cap, police said.

Police are working to obtain a photograph of Gordon, Hernandez said.

Anyone with information about Gordon's whereabouts is asked to call Cobb police at 770-499-3900.

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Angie McBrayer, ex-wife of James Aaron McBrayer, leans her head on her son Sam McBrayer as she and her three children and two grandchildren (from left) Jackson McBrayer, 3, Piper Jae McBrayer, 7, Katy Isaza, and Jordan McBrayer, visit the grave of James McBrayer, Thursday, November 20, 2025, in Tifton. He died after being restrained by Tift County sheriff's deputies on April 24, 2019. His ex-wife witnessed the arrest and said she thought the deputies were being rough but did not imagine that McBrayer would die. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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