Missing person: tall man in gray hoodie
Description
I lost my friend, 21-year-old Omar Patel. He has curly dark hair, about 6 ft 1 in, and was last seen yesterday around 3pm near the Sikes Lake area off Lake Wichita Drive in Wichita Falls. He was wearing a medium-gray zip-up hoodie, a white T-shirt underneath, dark navy jeans, and white sneakers. He also wears wire-rim glasses and has a small crescent tattoo on his right wrist. If you spot him, shoot me a message here; his family is worried, and we really need to know he's safe. We were near the Kemp Boulevard and Midwestern Parkway area when he disappeared, and he might be disoriented after a recent family emergency. Any information helps.
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