Greater than three weeks after Clinton Bonnell’s disappearance, authorities in addition to the North Carolina veteran’s household and mates are searching for solutions.
Bonnell, 50, was final seen on the night of Monday, Jan. 27, in Grey’s Creek, a suburb of Fayetteville, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Workplace said in a statement.
The retired Inexperienced Beret was stationed at close by Fort Bragg earlier than he retired from the army in December, in line with The Fayetteville Observer.
Since then, Bonnell had enrolled at Methodist College and was learning to turn into a doctor’s assistant, his sister Stefanie Firkins advised NBC News.
On the day Bonnell went lacking, Firkins mentioned her brother went to work out at Fit4Life fitness center earlier than he headed to campus to arrange for exams that day.
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Classmates and workers on the college turned involved when Bonnell didn’t present up for sophistication the next day, Firkins added.
Shana Cloud, Bonnell’s spouse, later alerted Firkins — who lives in Texas — that her brother was lacking.
The 6-foot-tall Bonnell, who has brown hair, brown eyes and weighs 195 lbs. He was final seen sporting a plaid button-down shirt, black hoodie and brown pants, authorities mentioned.
Firkins advised NBC Information that her brother’s disappearance is “out of character” for the veteran and devoted household man, who was taking his research critically.
“He was fully enamored with drugs and enthusiastic about his profession path,” she mentioned.
The sister added, “He wouldn’t stroll away from his life and his college and his daughter.”
Nonetheless, the circumstances of Bonnell’s disappearance don’t sit properly along with her.
“My brother is a Inexperienced Beret and completely able to caring for himself,” Firkins mentioned. “There’s very suspicious circumstances surrounding his disappearance.”
Anybody with details about Bonnell’s whereabouts is requested to contact the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Workplace Detective Sergeant J. McLeod at (910) 677-5548 or name 911.
