El Shawndrae Devon Jones, known to family as Shawn or Gibbs, was 22 when he disappeared from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in the winter of 1999. He and a friend, Toby Bing, were last seen about 6:30 p.m. on February 18 in the 100 block of Wild Horse Road. Jones is described as an African-American man with black hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 9 inches and about 195 pounds, with distinctive tattoos including a smiling or frowning face on the right side of his neck, the planet Earth on one arm, a man on another arm, and his birthdate 9/21/76 on a shoulder. He was wearing a diamond-cut Figaro necklace with a diamond-studded cross pendant the day he vanished.

Bing and Jones left together in Bing’s white 1994 Toyota pickup after Bing received a call asking him to drive to Bluffton; neither man was heard from again. Bing’s truck was found abandoned in Savannah, Georgia, on February 24, 1999. Investigators later found a large amount of blood at the Bluffton home of Sean Rico Sullivan; DNA matched Bing’s blood and Sullivan was arrested and charged with Bing’s murder in April 1999. Sullivan was not charged in Jones’s case, and Jones’s remains have never been located.

Who knew Shawn or saw him in the Hilton Head or Bluffton area in February 1999?