Atlanta police quickly located a missing dementia patient who slipped out of Grady Memorial Hospital early Friday morning.

John Scott, last seen wearing a gold shirt, blue jeans and red and white tennis shoes, was reported missing at 6 a.m., an APD spokeswoman said.

He was found on the 1900 block of Northside Drive.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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