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A K9 team located a 96-year-old Florida man on Tuesday, just hours after he was reported missing.
A neighbor reported around noon that she had not seen William Carlson for two days and asked for deputies to do a welfare check, according to a release from Columbia County Sheriff's Office public information officer Murray Smith.
They believed Carlson was near his home on foot as his door was unlocked and his car was still at home. Investigators asked for a K9 team from Baker Correctional Institution to assist in searching near his home.
Neighbors also assisted in the search and around 2:45 p.m., the K9 team found Carlson a half mile away from his home, lying in tall grass near some woods, Smith said.
Carlson told deputies that he had been out all night after he went for a walk and fell. Smith was checked out at a nearby hospital and was found to be in good physical and mental condition.
