Prince George’s County s Local Behavioral Health Authority shut down the Largo home after it failed an inspection of its conditions Thursday.
“This is an active investigation, but we were at their Prince George’s County office yesterday and again today,” Local Behavioral Health Authority acting manager O Tilia Hunter said. “We went to the home where this individual was yesterday and we closed that home. So it s not so much what they say. It s what we find in our investigation.” A 56-year-old man was missing for nearly a month after walking away from a community-based home for mental health patients in Prince George s County. He was found sleeping on the streets of D.C. by a family friend. It was two weeks before the family was told he had left the home, and they want to know why. Prince George s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins spoke with mental health advocates about what should have happened.
In late June, his family couldn t get him on the phone.
“After a while of constantly calling, then a family member went over to check on him, and that is when we were told he was missing and had been missing for at least two weeks,” Oreadea Treadwell said.
He’d last been seen June 18. His family was not contacted, but a supervisor at the home told them a police report was filed.
“I had to process it first, because the word ‘missing’ by itself is just a difficult word, and then attached to my brother s name is something I never dreamed could ever happen or would ever happen,” Oreadea Treadwell said.