Pittsburgh Police continued the search this week for a Beechview man missing since last month.
Thomas Hughes, 25, was last seen around 11 p.m. on Jan. 23.
His vehicle, a 2012 silver Volkswagen Routan, was found the next day near the South Side Riverfront Trail, authorities said.
The vehicle was unlocked, and the keys were in the ignition, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV.
Authorities searched that area again Friday, deploying patrol officers, bicycle units, the Special Victims Unit and River Rescue, according to a release from Pittsburgh Police. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office searched the area from overhead using drones.
Hughes remains missing.
A day prior, police released a security footage from a gas station that captured Hughes the night he was last seen. Police did not say which gas station the footage was from, though they asked that anyone who encountered him around that location to contact the Special Victims Unit.
The footage, less than 10 seconds long, shows Hughes walking through the glass doors of the gas station and looking around. He’s wearing a baseball cap in the footage.
Hughes family previously told WPXI that when he didn’t return home after leaving his parents’ home Jan. 23 and wouldn’t answer his phone, they knew something was wrong.
“It’s something that’s completely unlike him,” his sister Alexis Hughes told the TV station. “He’s never done this before. I’m worried sick.”
When he was last seen, Hughes was wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue jeans, black boots and a black Carhartt jacket. He’s 6-feet, 1-inch tall, about 260 pounds, and he has blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Pittsburgh Police Special Victims Unit at 412-323-7141.
