John A. Brewer, Jr., was 69 when he disappeared from Pegram, Tennessee, on May 8, 2013. A former Davidson County Sheriff’s Office captain who had struggled with mental illness after his career ended, Brewer had been living in a halfway house in Nashville. On the morning he vanished he took a taxi to the Community Bank & Trust in Pegram, withdrew $500 — the entire balance of his account — and behaved in a way bank employees described as strange. Staff called police, but officers arrived about ten minutes later and Brewer was gone.

Reports say Brewer asked one employee for a ride; after she declined he left the bank and was last seen walking away. He had been ordered to live at the Jefferson Street halfway house following a 2011 incident in which, believing he was a U.S. Marshal, he shot at a neighbor and was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for treatment. Brewer is described as a white male, 6 feet tall, 215–220 pounds, graying hair, brown eyes, with a scar on his head and a tattoo of his nickname Johnny on his upper left arm. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Department handled the investigation.

If anyone saw Brewer in Pegram or Nashville around May 8, 2013, or has information about his movements after he left the bank, please come forward.