A Silver Alert was issued on behalf of a 76-year-old man last seen in Koreatown Friday.
Simon Villatoro was last seen about 8 a.m. in the area of Fedora Street and James M. Wood Boulevard, near Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, according to the California Highway Patrol, which issued the alert on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Villatoro is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 173 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white fedora with the name “Rolando” on it, a white T-shirt, blue jeans and gray shoes.
Anyone with information on Villatoro’s whereabouts was asked to call 911.
The Silver Alert program was established by the CHP to issue and coordinate alerts involving the unexplained or suspicious disappearance of elderly, developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired individuals.