A Silver Alert was activated Tuesday for a missing 66-year-old man last seen in Lomita.
Samuel Fraticelli was last seen at approximately 2:30 a.m. Monday near West 245th Street and Western Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol, which issued the Silver Alert on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Fraticelli is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, has brown eyes and thin brown hair. He was believed to be on foot and was last seen wearing a gray long-sleeved T-shirt, black pants and gray shoes.
Anyone who sees Fraticelli or knows of his whereabouts was asked to call 911.
The Silver Alert program was established by the CHP to issue and coordinate alerts involving unexplained or suspicious disappearances of elderly, developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired individuals.