Search continues for North Carolina nightclub bouncer who vanished after minor car crash

Associates and volunteers fashioned a search social gathering Wednesday and fanned out in Raleigh, North Carolina, in search of clues and elevating consciousness a couple of in style nightclub bouncer, who they are saying went lacking per week in the past whereas driving residence.

Robert Richardson, 41, was reported lacking by buddies, who say he disappeared after getting right into a minor automobile accident on the night of Might 4.

“He is on the market someplace and anyone is aware of one thing,” Kensley Perry, a buddy of Richardson, instructed ABC station WTVD in Durham.

Perry works as head of safety at The Village Leisure Advanced in Raleigh’s Glenwood South nightlife district, the place Richardson is employed as a door bouncer.

The Raleigh Police Division confirmed that Richardson’s buddies filed a lacking individual report, however mentioned they don’t have any strong leads on the place he is likely to be.

Richardson was driving residence to close by Sanford on Might 4 after assembly buddies for dinner and obtained right into a fender bender, Perry mentioned. He mentioned Richardson exchanged insurance coverage info with the motive force of the opposite automobile.

Perry mentioned Richardson inexplicably walked away, leaving his automobile behind together with his two cell telephones and laptop computer laptop inside. Police responded and towed the automobile away, Perry mentioned.

Perry mentioned he acquired a report that Richardson was noticed on Might 5 strolling towards downtown Raleigh, however there have been no sightings since.

Anxious that Richardson could have been injured within the crash and has develop into disoriented, buddies have known as native hospitals and homeless shelters in search of the person. Associates and volunteers spent Wednesday plastering downtown Raleigh with lacking individual fliers containing Richardson’s photograph.

Richardson is described as 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-3 and round 280 kilos.

“He is obtained tattoos so he stands out,” Perry mentioned.

Requested if Richardson, who moved to North Carolina from Pennsylvania a 12 months in the past, had disappeared earlier than or has a historical past of substance abuse, Perry mentioned, “He isn’t that kind of man. No historical past of that, to our information, in any respect.”

Perry mentioned Richardson is a “good, fun-loving social dude.”

“At all times obtained a smile on his face,” Perry mentioned of his buddy.