Georgia Family Goes To Tennessee In Search Of Missing Son

PEACHTREE CITY, GA -- A metro Atlanta family's desperate search for their missing son has taken them to a small Tennessee city.

Vincent “Vinnie” Rossetti was last seen by relatives on Dec. 17, the day he drove from his family's Peachtree City home to his sister's house in Birmingham, Alabama.

The next day he was found sitting in his car by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper in rural White County.

The family is especially worried about Rossetti's emotional state: He recently began acting like he was hearing voices, his mother told local media. To compound the situation, the young man is still grieving the death of his father.

“We think Vinnie might have be having some delayed mourning reactions and he's going through a hard time,” his uncle Jerome Degolian told Nashville TV station WZTV.

“His father passed away in a plane crash two years ago,” his mother Pam Rossetti told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Vinnie’s never dealt with the loss of his father.”

But it is the way the Tennessee state trooper dealt with Rossetti that has the family in the Volunteer State. The trooper didn't detain Rosetti because he had broken no laws, although he did seem a bit out of it, according to reports.

“Because it’s a small town, the trooper thought he was doing us a favor driving the car to the hospital,” Pam Rossetti told the AJC.

“They knew he was a missing person in Georgia, and they took him to the hospital and then, unfortunately, they released him,” Rossetti’s aunt, Desales Degolian, told WZTV in Nashville.

He went off the radar once more, but soon his car turned up about 30 miles away in Smithville, Tennessee outside the Sligo Marina. The car was unlocked, the keys weren't far away -- but still no trace of Rossetti.

“We don't know if he's been abducted, we don't know anything,” his uncle, Jerome Degolian told WZTV.

Rossetti has blonde hair and blue eyes and is listed as 6'2, 180 pounds. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee.

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