‘I’m desperate’: Miami woman with Alzheimer’s has been missing for days, son says
Miami police continue to ask for the public’s help to find an 84-year-old woman who has been missing for about a week.
Edis Lopez Collazo, who has Alzheimer’s, disappeared from her Allapattah home, near the corner of Northwest 24th Avenue and Northwest 29th Street, on April 4, her son Eduardo Lopez Hernandez told the Miami Herald. Miami police told the Herald she has been missing since April 6.
On Wednesday, police confirmed she is still unaccounted for.
“Detectives are still actively working the case,” said police spokeswoman Ofc. Kiara Delva.
Lopez Hernandez, 64, said Monday he has been looking for his mom “everywhere,” even distributing fliers while hoping to find her alive and well.
He said his mother may have a scar on her right cheekbone after she fell the day before she disappeared. He said he left her alone for a few minutes to buy her food — but when he returned, she was gone.
She has difficulties talking to others and may be unable to ask for help or remember who she is, her son noted.
“I don’t know if she has eaten,” he said in Spanish. “I’m desperate.”
Lopez Collazo, who stands 5 feet, 7 inches and weighs 120 pounds, was last spotted wearing a blue shirt and beige shorts, police said Monday in a news release. She has black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Detective L. Verne, or any on-duty detective of the city of Miami of Police Department’s Special Victims Unit, at 305-603-6300 or 305-579-6111, or to send an email to SVU@miami-police.org.
This story was originally published April 10, 2023 at 5:15 PM.
