Police are asking for the public’s helping in finding an 85-year-old man missing from the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side since Wednesday.
Matthew Vassar, who suffers from dementia, was last seen about 4:45 p.m. leaving his house in the 9000 block of South Marshfield, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
He was described as a 156-pound, 6-foot black man with brown eyes, dark brown hair and a medium complexion, police said. Vassar was wearing a black jacket, black pants, black shoes and carrying a rose-colored walking cane.
Anyone with information on Vassar’s whereabouts is asked to contact Area South detectives at (312) 747-8274.