Crime & Safety
101-Year-Old Echo Park Man Found
Lazaro Alfonso Gomez checked himself into a Glendale Memorial Hospital. He was found there Sunday evening.
A 101-year-old Echo Park man who had been reported missing was at a Glendale hospital Sunday, having checked himself in after falling while on his way to visit a woman who was not expecting him, police said.
Lazaro Alfonso Gamez lives alone in the 4300 block of Willowbrook Avenue and, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement issued Saturday, ``suffers from dementia and is in poor mental condition.''
He was reported missing Saturday night by a caregiver who had not heard from him since Wednesday morning.
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An officer working the telephones in a search for Gamez located him at Glendale Memorial hospital around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, police said.
``He rode the bus to visit his friend in Glendale Friday,'' said Sgt. Melvin Gamble of the LAPD's Rampart Station. ``When he got off the bus near her residence, he fell, bruising his right eye, and admitted himself to Glendale Memorial.''
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The friend had not been expecting him, Gamble said, adding that Gamez remained at Glendale Memorial this morning for observation.
