Livest Leon Melvin, 58, 4/10/08,[Body Found] Fayetteville, NC

[Faith]

Fayetteville Police Search For Missing Man

Wednesday, Apr 23, 2008 - 04:12 PM

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Police are looking for a man missing since April 2.

Livest Leon Melvin, 58, was reported missing by a family member on April 10. He is known as “Uncle L.”

Melvin is about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 190 pounds with a medium-brown complexion, gray hair and brown eyes. He may be on foot in the area of the VA hospital on Ramsey Street or on Murchison Road.

Melvin requires medication and he does not have it with him. The lack of medication could possibly be life threatening. It is unlike Melvin to lose contact with his family and they are extremely worried.

Anyone with information on Livest Leon Melvin’s whereabouts should contact the Fayetteville Police Department at (910) 433-1856.
http://www.nbc17.com (http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2008-04-23-0014.html)

[Faith]

Silver Alert issued for missing man

Thursday, April 24, 2008 | 10:23 PM

FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- The search for a missing Fayetteville man is now a silver alert.

The center for missing persons has issued an alert for Livest Melvin.

The 58-year-old is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment.

He was last seen on April second. Melvin was reported missing April 10.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6102634

[Faith]

Family 'Extremely Worried' About Missing Fayetteville Man

Fayetteville, N.C. — Detectives are asking for the public’s help to find Livest Leon Melvin, 58.

He was last seen on April 2 and was reported missing by a family member on April 10. He is known as “Uncle L.”

Melvin is a black man, 5 feet 11 inches tall and 190 pounds with a medium complexion, gray hair and brown eyes. He may be on foot in the area of the VA hospital on Ramsey Street or on Murchison Road.

Melvin requires medication and does not have it with him, police said. The lack of medication could possibly be life-threatening. It is unlike Melvin to lose contact with his family, and they are extremely worried, police said.

Anyone with information about Melvin’s whereabouts should contact the Fayetteville Police Department at 910-433-1856.

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2739155/

[KittyMom]

WOW...lots of time between when he was last seen and reported missing. Hope he's found.

[Faith]

Livest Leon Melvin, aka "Uncle L"

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[Faith]

Sighting of missing man was false alarm

Police were notified about 8 a.m. that someone resembling Livest Leon Melvin, 58, walking along Raeford Road, according to reports.

Police talked with the man and determined it was not Melvin, said Jamie Smith, Fayetteville Police spokeswoman.
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=292377

[Breezy]

Oh my! Why in the world is there an eight day lapse in the time he was last seen and reported missing??

Snipped from above post:
He may be on foot in the area of the VA hospital on Ramsey Street or on Murchison Road.

I wonder if he was living in some type of retirement community??

[Faith]

Body in Cape Fear remains a mystery

Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 7:09 PM

FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) -- Fayetteville Police are trying to unravel the mystery of a body boaters found in the Cape Fear River Thursday night.

The body was badly decomposed.

Investigators are scrambling to see if the body is one of two missing persons in the city.

"Right now we don't have a positive ID on the person," police spokesperson Jamie Smith said. "They were decomposed so it may take us a while to ID them."

The body was found in the water between the Grove Street and Eastern Boulevard bridges.

Stephen Little is very familiar with that stretch of the river. It's a place he often goes cat fishing at night.

"Well, it's kind of scary because like I say, I'm out here by myself at night so you never know what you might run into," Little said. "And I don't carry any protection other than a dip net. So yeah, that's something to think about."

Investigators are trying to determine if the body is one of two missing persons in the county.

Willie Simon, 61, is a taxi cab driver who has been missing since March. His cab was found near a radio tower in Spring Lake a few days after he disappeared.

Family members say 58-year-old Livest Melvin called police April 3 saying his life was being threatened, and he hasn't been seen since.

"We do have a couple of people in the area who have been reported missing," Smith said. "But due to the lack of a description or any additional information, we [Fayetteville Police Department] couldn't say if it was one of them."

Authorities hope to have a positive ID by next week.

The body was sent to the medical examiner in Chapel Hill to determine the cause of death. Anyone with information should call the Fayetteville Police Department.


http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6132922

[Faith]

Body found in river identified as missing man

The body of a man found in the Cape Fear River earlier this month has been identified as Livest Melvin, who was reported missing in April.

The cause of Melvin’s death is not yet known, said Sgt. John Somerindyke of the Fayetteville Police Department.

Melvin’s family had reported the 58-year-old missing on April 10.

The family said Melvin suffered from dementia and other cognitive impairments and disappeared without his daily medications. His nickname was “Uncle L.”

A boater discovered the body on May 8 near where North Eastern Boulevard crosses the Cape Fear River.

The decomposition made it hard to identify the body, police said.
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=294818

[Faith]

RIP Livest :1222423::1222423::1222423:

[Roamer]

My condolences to his family. :1222423:

[Nut44x4]

Wow......how sad. :(