Update 10/14- The City Watch alert for Lonell Green has been cancelled after he was found safe.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police have cancelled a City Watch alert for Lonell Green.
Green is the brother of acclaimed soul artist Al Green.
When he was reported missing, Lonell Green, 58, had been last seen on the afternoon of Oct. 8 as he left his home in the 5000 block of Kaye Road to go to the store. Police said he has an injured hand that needs medical treatment, and he may not be thinking clearly.
“You never think about it until it hits home. It’s really us now,” his stepson Marshall Thompson said.
“It’s been really hard. It’s been really hard,” added Green’s daughter, Lonetta Green, who said she is doing her best to stay strong for their family.
Since Lonell went missing, the family has been searching the streets of Memphis but so far, no luck finding their father.
Lonetta said for the last few weeks her hard working father hasn’t been thinking clearly. She said he’s been a little confused and sad. He works in a warehouse and got a spider bite, which got infected. Lonell hasn’t seen a doctor, and he hasn’t been able to work.
“I’m thinking that it may alter his thinking or his brain in some kind of way because it’s being left untreated,” Lonetta said.
Lonell’s family said he is a homebody and they have no idea why he would leave. Now they’re hoping for the best.
“We just praying for him, that nothing bad has happened to him. Nobody has carjacked him anything, robbed him anything,” Thompson said.
This is the second time one of Al Green’s siblings has been reported missing. His sister Maxine Green disappeared in 2013; she was last seen at a store near her home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has not been found since.
Lonell Green is a 5-foot-10 black male weighing about 190 pounds with brown eyes, black hair and a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers.
His car is a tan 2000 Mitsubishi Galant with Tennessee tag SJ9863.