Robert S. Grooms Jr., known as Bootsy, vanished from Katura Springs Assisted Living Center in Eutawville, South Carolina on December 31, 2008. He was 70, 5 feet 5 inches and about 130 pounds, with graying brown hair and brown eyes. That day he left the facility with another resident; the companion later returned alone while Grooms did not. He was wearing a gray and white flannel shirt, khaki pants and a red baseball cap and reportedly left without a coat despite cold, snowy weather. Staff note he was free to come and go and had done so before, but he never signed out that night and his absence has continued without explanation. The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office is the investigating agency and he is considered to be in danger.

What can readers in or around Eutawville add about Bootsy’s last known movements or anyone who might have seen him that New Year’s Eve?