For six days, a man with Down syndrome was missing. He was found in the Glenmont Metro station after what his family called an inadequately slow police search.
For six days, Jimmy Hall and his family searched desperately for his missing son — a 31-year-old man with Down syndrome who’d slipped away“Shawnyboy!” they called out day after day, often until 3 a.m. “Shawnyboy!”
Late Thursday, as Hall and 10 family members were out again, canvassing a parking lot in Glenmont, his phone rang. It was one of the Montgomery County detectivesHall raced over to a nearby train station and hugged his son, who greeted him the same way as always.The police department’s search for his son — real name Rashawn Williams — got off to an inadequately slow start, according tothe search didn’t gain the appropriate urgency until Monday night, three days after his disappearance.
Williams was there last Friday night, Hall said, when he walked past the front desk and boarded the R2 bus, whose route stretches 10 miles through Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, ending at the Fort Totten Metro station in D.C.In an interview Friday, Montgomery County Assistant Police Chief Nicholas Augustine said police were called by the caregiving agency at 6:41 p.m. on the day of his disappearance, with the first officers arriving 14 minutes later.
Augustine said officers did not try to stop the R2 bus because by the time they arrived, they didn’t know which R2 bus he was on or whether he was still on it. So the department focused on getting word out to the public and notifying its officers and area law enforcement agencies. “From a law-enforcement perspective, we did everything that first night to find him if an officer had come upon him,” Augustine said.To Hall and his family, it was all too passive. They remain frustrated that police seemed difficult to reach in the opening days and slow to scour surveillance footage.
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