Crime & Safety

Update: Kennesaw Man Found Safe

Davonn Tyree Browder, 19, was found in an Atlanta park more than two days after leaving home.

Updated 3:25 a.m.

Kennesaw resident Davonn Tyree Browder, 19, is safe and back with his family.

Atlanta police found the man, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, in a park in the city around midnight when they responded to a report of a suspicious person, Cobb County police reported.

Browder showed no signs of foul play and just wanted to go home, Cobb police said in a news release, and he was in good health and good spirits when he returned to his family early today.

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Original Report

A 19-year-old Kennesaw man with paranoid schizophrenia is missing, and are asking for the public’s help to find him.

Davonn Tyree Browder was last seen at his home in the 2900 block of Owens Place Point on Monday, police spokesman Officer Mike Bowman said. Although Browder has been diagnosed with a mental disorder, he does not take his prescribed medications.

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He was wearing a black, zippered hoodie jacket, black jeans and black shoes and was unshaven when he left home.

Police described him as 5 feet, 10 inches tall and 160 pounds with a scar on his forehead.

Cobb police have asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to issue a Mattie’s Call in the case.

Police want anyone with information about Browder's location to call 911 or 770-499-3911.


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