Delaware Missing Veteran Lee Riley is double amputee

Police seek help finding missing war vet
The News Journal
April 11, 2014

State police are asking the public's help in locating a 66-year-old war veteran who has not been seen since leaving the VA Hospital in Elsmere last week.

Lee Riley, of Townsend, is a double amputee who uses a wheelchair. He is African-American, about 6 feet tall, 150 pounds and bald.

When last seen April 3 about 10 a.m. leaving the VA Hospital, Riley was dressed in brown overalls and white sneakers and was wearing a Vietnam veterans hat, Cpl. John Day said.

He may be traveling to Washington, D.C. or to California.

Riley may be wearing one or both of his prosthetic legs. He uses a manually-propelled wheelchair and has no means of long-distances travel, Day said.

Anyone with information on Riley's whereabouts is asked to call Troop 9 at 378-5218 or use the state police Mobile Crime Tip App by downloading at: http://www.delaware.gov/apps/ or call Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800)TIP-3333.