A reward for help finding an Atlanta man who has been missing for nearly two weeks swelled to more than $20,000 as his family and authorities were coming up empty trying to find him. Timothy Jerrell Cunningham went home sick from his place of work on Feb. 12 and his loved ones haven’t been able to reach him since.
His “sudden disappearance is highly irregular and very much out of character for him,” according to the GoFundMe page that was started Tuesday. “We are launching this fundraising campaign to collect funds that will be used to establish a reward for information that will help locate Tim.”
Cunningham, who got his undergrad degree from Morehouse College before going on to earn two graduate degrees at Harvard, including his doctorate, is an epidemic intelligence officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His co-workers said the last time the saw him was when he left to go home on that fateful day.
His lengthy absence prompted Cunningham’s parents to travel from Maryland to look for their 35-year-old son. When they used a spare key to enter his home, they found Cunningham’s cellphone, wallet, keys as well as his car, but not him.
“It’s not the type of news you want to hear,” his father, Terrell Cunningham, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Thursday. “Your child is missing. Thirty-five years old, but always your child.”
He continued: “This is not normal. This is definitely out of the ordinary.”
Cunningham went to college with social justice journalist Shaun King who made a plea for help to his thousands of followers on social media.
“Have you seen this man?” King asked in a Monday Facebook status posted above two pictures of the missing epidemiologist. “Tim Cunningham was my classmate at Morehouse & a Harvard grad.”
Others on social media claiming to be Cunningham’s friends have also made similar appeals to the public, accompanied by a #findTimATL hashtag that was created specifically to help find him.
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