A man with Alzheimer's disease who went missing Monday evening from Gainesville was found Tuesday morning hundreds of miles from town in Fayetteville, N.C.
Jack Hill, 83, was last seen in Gainesville at about 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Arby's on Southwest 13th Street, said Cpl. Angelina Valuri, public information officer for the Gainesville Police Department.
Earlier that day, he was seen on Bo Diddley Community Plaza at about 6 p.m. and at the McDonald's at 201 NW 13th St. that afternoon.
When he disappeared, he had last been seen wearing a green shirt, orange jacket, black socks and shoes and a beanie-style hat, according to a GPD flier posted while he was missing.
After Hill's family reported he was missing Monday, police issued a Silver Alert that was posted statewide.
This system is used when a person with a cognitive impairment is missing.
Hill has disappeared before - a five-day trip a few years ago ended when he was found in Virginia.
He took the bus then, so police checked the Greyhound system this time to see if he had purchased any tickets, Valuri said.
He had - a ticket to Fayetteville from Miami.
Local authorities were at the station when the bus arrived at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday.
"As soon as the bus pulled in, they found him," she said.
Members of Hill's family were sent to bring him home.
Police don't know how Hill made it from Gainesville to Miami after he was spotted at Arby's on Monday night.
"We don't know how he got down to Miami," Valuri said. "Somebody probably picked him up and gave him a ride."
