Missing in Mexico: Charleston family searching for loved one with dementia [Video]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The family of a Charleston man who suffers from dementia says he has been missing since last Wednesday in Cozumel and they want others in the Lowcountry to be proactive so no one else has to go through this.

Charleston native Edmund Bradley Solomon III just celebrated his 66 birthday at the beginning of the seven-day cruise to Mexico.

“My sister knew it would probably be the last vacation that she was able to take with Brad based on his deterioration over the last couple months,” Ashley Hyer, Solomon’s sister-in-law, said.

Solomon’s family says he has frontotemporal dementia, which is an earlier onset dementia that causes personal, behavioral and emotional changes in one’s personality. The group was shopping along the terminal area docked in Cozumel when Solomon wandered off. Hyer says there’s only been a few sightings since then.

“In a grocery store,” Hyer said. “And …