Relatives of a 37-year-old Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) man is seeking the public’s assistance in locating him after he disappeared from in front of a Sheriff Street, Georgetown supermarket while waiting on his mother.
Roger Brandt of Third Avenue, Diamond was last seen on Saturday, February 26th.
His aunt, Carmen Abdool yesterday told Stabroek News that Brandt and his mother would usually travel to Georgetown every Saturday to spend the weekend at her place or that of another sister.
Abdool said on the day Brandt disappeared, they were scheduled to spend the weekend with her. As such, she said she drove to Georgetown to collect them from the supermarket where Brandt’s mother had stopped to purchase some items.
She said it is customary for Brandt to wait outside the supermarket. However, upon her arrival, he was nowhere to be seen. “I did not notice him but I figured that he didn’t come or that he was in the supermarket,” Abdool said.
According to Abdool, she didn’t learn that Brandt had disappeared until his mother exited the supermarket and began to enquire about him.
Abdool said that she and her sister searched for Brandt in and around the Sheriff Street area but their efforts were futile.
She explained that security footage from the supermarket showed Brandt was standing outside the supermarket, in front the door. However, it did not pick up in which direction he went. “Then all of a sudden he started walking and looking back three times to see maybe if we were following him or we were looking. And then he started walking fast. I believe that he crossed the road but the footage didn’t pick that up,” Abdool related.
Brandt suffers from a mental illness. “We don’t know why he walked away. He came down with his mom as good as ever…Since then we been looking for him and we can’t find him,” Abdool said.
A police report was lodged at the Criminal Investigation Department and at the Kitty Police Station.
Abdool hopes that Brandt is safe and will be found soon. “I am worried about him because we don’t know if he had money in his haversack or if he had his wallet. He doesn’t have any clothes on him. We don’t know where he is staying, how he sleeps at night. Nothing,” she said.
Anyone who might have seen Brandt or knows about his whereabouts is asked to contact his relatives on 222-4494, 623-4796, 218-1699 or the nearest police station.
