Friends, firefighters continue search for missing Warren man, 73

Staff report

WARREN

Four friends of a 73-year-old man missing since Sunday resumed the search for him Friday in the woods behind the Short Stop Truck Stop on state Route 5, Warren Township, after his pickup truck was found at the truck stop Thursday.

They were joined by Warren Township firefighters, who searched the area for a second day in hopes of finding Darryl R. Hall of Penn Avenue Northwest.

Fire officials searched throughout the day but didn’t find anything, a spokesman said, adding that surveillance video from a storage company west of the truck stop captured him walking along Route 5 at 10:45 a.m. Sunday.

Warren police alerted the public to his disappearance Thursday, saying Hall was suicidal and possibly armed.

His wife said she last spoke with him Sunday morning at about 10 a.m., when he said he was going to “drive on a long road and commit suicide.” He has early-stage dementia, said Don Bishop, Warren Township police chief. Hall was wearing blue jeans and a dark jacket.

Bishop said some of Hall’s friends and family, the Warren Township Police Department, the fire departments from Warren and Southington townships and police dogs from two police departments searched the woods near the truck stop and on the other side of Route 5 Thursday. Hall’s truck was found in the truck-stop’s parking lot at 10 a.m.

The other side of Route 5 was checked because Hall frequently walked at a township-owned dump site off Burnett Road, Bishop said.

Witnesses said Hall had gone to the restaurant in the truck stop Sunday morning, so it’s possible he left with someone else, Bishop said.