Transporting missing brother home
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My brother has been missing for 24 years. Upon his departure, he was the inspiring light to the family. He was so focused on getting our family out of poverty that he may have became overwhelmed. Sharrieff was the first male of his immediate family to graduate high school and continued his journey to Miles College of Alabama. He visited back home in Chicago for his first break and he was never heard from again there on.
Throughout the years we've searched and invested countless hours browsing social media outlets for our missing brother. My Mother and I have been to numerous police stations to end up at dead ends. We've even searched Unidentified Bodies, Namus, and various other sites to find our brother. For the past 24 years, we've had no luck up until now. Exactly 50 days after the passing of our Mother, who mourned for his return during her last days.
I would appreciate any financial support that will help our family reunite
with him and catch up on life. We want to drive to Nashville, Tennessee (where he is located) to bring him back home.
News Broadcast:
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Moriah Mays was only a child the last time she saw her brother, Sharrieff.
The family says at some point he was in college in Alabama. He left home from Chicago and they never heard from him again.
He was 23. They say, at the time, they reached out to police and got nowhere.
In recent years, Moriah stepped up her efforts online, posting about her brother. She started a Facebook page, hoping to drum up information on his disappearance.
Yesterday, a picture arrived in her inbox. It was her brother, Now 46 years old. Someone who doesn't want to be identified sent it.
Today, Moriah says she talked with her brother briefly on the phone.
There are so many unanswered questions, but he told her that "he had lost his mind." He ended up in Nashville, Tennessee, and for more than 20 years his family had no idea he had been living at a center that helps people with mental illness.
Moriah and her family are planning to drive to Tennessee as soon as possible to try to put the pieces of this puzzle together. But they're shocked and overjoyed they found Sharrieff and he's alive. Now they want to bring him home
MAYS FAMILY/WGN
Throughout the years we've searched and invested countless hours browsing social media outlets for our missing brother. My Mother and I have been to numerous police stations to end up at dead ends. We've even searched Unidentified Bodies, Namus, and various other sites to find our brother. For the past 24 years, we've had no luck up until now. Exactly 50 days after the passing of our Mother, who mourned for his return during her last days.
I would appreciate any financial support that will help our family reunite
with him and catch up on life. We want to drive to Nashville, Tennessee (where he is located) to bring him back home.
News Broadcast:
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Moriah Mays was only a child the last time she saw her brother, Sharrieff.
The family says at some point he was in college in Alabama. He left home from Chicago and they never heard from him again.
He was 23. They say, at the time, they reached out to police and got nowhere.
In recent years, Moriah stepped up her efforts online, posting about her brother. She started a Facebook page, hoping to drum up information on his disappearance.
Yesterday, a picture arrived in her inbox. It was her brother, Now 46 years old. Someone who doesn't want to be identified sent it.
Today, Moriah says she talked with her brother briefly on the phone.
There are so many unanswered questions, but he told her that "he had lost his mind." He ended up in Nashville, Tennessee, and for more than 20 years his family had no idea he had been living at a center that helps people with mental illness.
Moriah and her family are planning to drive to Tennessee as soon as possible to try to put the pieces of this puzzle together. But they're shocked and overjoyed they found Sharrieff and he's alive. Now they want to bring him home
MAYS FAMILY/WGN
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Taanathshiloh Partee Mays
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Kenosha, WI
