HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas — A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing 79-year-old man out of the East Texas area.
Officials are searching for Jesse Goode, who's been diagnosed with a cognitive impairment, He was last seen around 4 p.m., on Saturday, in the 300 block of Nob Hill in Seven Points. Seven Points sits about 20 miles northwest of Athens in Henderson County. The city is also partially in Kaufman County.
The Seven Points Police Department says Goode may be traveling in a 1995 white Ford F-150 with the Texas license plate: MMK4569.
"Law enforcement officials believe this person’s disappearance poses a credible threat to their own health and safety," the SPPD said.
If you have any information on Goode's whereabouts, please contact the SPPD at (903) 432-2111.
WHAT IS A SILVER ALERT?
In 2007, the Texas legislatures created the Silver Alert program to notify the public of older adults with documented mental conditions who go missing.
The criteria for a Silver Alert criteria are (per the Texas DPS website):
- Is the missing person 65 years of age or older or been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease?
- Does the senior citizen have a diagnosed impaired mental condition, and does the senior citizen's disappearance pose a credible threat to the senior citizen's health and safety? (Law enforcement shall require the family or legal guardian of the missing senior citizen to provide documentation from a medical or mental health professional of the senior citizen's condition).
- Is it confirmed that an investigation has taken place verifying that the senior citizen's disappearance is due to his/her impaired mental condition, and alternative reasons for the senior citizen's disappearance have been ruled out?
- Is the Silver Alert request within 72 hours of the senior citizen's disappearance?
- Is there sufficient information available to disseminate to the public that could assist in locating the senior citizen? (Highway signs will be activated only if accurate vehicle information is available AND it is confirmed that the senior citizen was driving the vehicle at the time of the disappearance).
