Derrick Marshall, 33, went missing in early February 2009 after a brief, chaotic episode while riding as a passenger in his sister’s car near Neely Road in Pulaski County, Arkansas. According to his sister, he consumed a substance that appeared to be cocaine, then jumped from the moving vehicle and fled into nearby woods. He was never seen again after that moment.

Family searches turned up only his coat left in the woods. The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department conducted a ground search that continued into the next day but found no further trace and the official search was eventually called off. At the time he disappeared he was described as African-American, 6 feet 1 to 6 feet 2 inches tall, 180 to 195 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, gold and purple wind pants, and black Jordan shoes, and has scars on his right arm and right leg and missing fingers on both hands.

The case remains open and unresolved, and those who knew Derrick continue to seek answers. If anyone has information about his disappearance or remembers seeing him in that area in early February 2009, please come forward.