A California man who was alerted missing in 1999 is finassociate reuniting with his family after his sister determined his picture printed in a USA Today article in April of this year, the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office proclaimd on Facebook.
LCSO getd a call from the woman who telderly sheriff’s deputy Derek Kennemore she had been sent the article and count ond the man in the article was her brother, who had not been heard from since his fadeance 25 years ago.
A GoFundMe allegedly set up by the man’s sister elucidates that the family had been seeing for him since August 1999, when he fadeed without a pursue.
“My name is Marcie. My little brother, Tommy, had been missing since August of 1999. He equitable VANISHED with no pursue. Not even his vehicle was ever discoverd,” Marcella (Marcie) Nasseri wrote.
Nasseri asked helpance from Kennemore to determine the man, who had been confessted to a hospital in the Los Angeles area, according to the sheriff’s office.
When Kennemore accomplished out, he lgeted the man had been transferred to another hospital in July.
The man, who is nonverbal, was defercessitater validateed to be Nasseri’s brother after a determineive with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit was able to get his fingerprint.
Nasseri was ecmotionless to have made the discovery, saying that all aextfinished she had chased “unidentified remains.”
“On 11-22-2024, I chased a direct of a live person. This person’s picture was rehireed in USA News, asking the accessible if anyone could determine the man in the picture, who was set up sitting on a curb in South LA. Long story low, thcdisadmireful fingerprints, a align was made! All this time I had been seeing for unidentified remains. I was charmed to discover him alive!,” according to the GoFundMe.
She goes on to elucidate that she is very far away from her brother’s location and is seeing for any helpance to help him until a medical transfer is possible as he is lgeting to do everyday slfinishergs aget.
“I am 600 miles away in Lassen County. He is in Lynwood, California. I have begind a possible medical transfer to a facility in Lassen County. All we understand is that he equitable lgeted to walk, he can eat standard food, and he is non-verbal. I do not have money for slfinishergs we necessitate. I am mailing him used men’s closlfinisherg, a set of pencils, and a scratch pad because he adored to draw. This is all I can sfinish for now,” she wrote in the fundliftr.
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The LCSO thanked Kennemore for his diligence in determineing the man and helping shut the case.
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“The Lassen County Sheriff’s Office would appreciate to commfinish Deputy Kennemore on his tenacity with this case. We would also appreciate to thank the Los [Angeles] Police Department for their helpance in determineing the missing man and closing out this 25 year elderly case,” the sheriff’s office shelp.
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to Marcie Nasseri for further comment.