Clermont County officials have issued a statewide Missing Adult Alert for Thomas Mills, a 71-year-old man.Pierce Township police Chief Paul Broxterman said a neighbor was the last person to see Mills around 8 a.m. on Tuesday in the Amelia Court Apartment's parking lot at 1381 W. Ohio Pike.Broxterman said when Clermont County County Senior Services arrived to pick up Mills, he was nowhere to be found."They checked inside. He wasn't there. So, they called the nephew who called us." Broxterman said.Police said Mills is 4 feet, 11 inches tall, weighs 115 pounds, and has grey hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black jacket."He only walks around this immediate area. He's lived here for two years, and he has a very distinctive ... he has trouble walking. So, we're hoping someone in the area sees him and gives us a call," Broxterman said. The apartment complex is next to Kroger on Ohio Pike."We're checking the cameras of Kroger. We pinged his phone, and, you know, we got a hit about 300 meters around this area, which is 1,200 feet. We've had the sheriff's department come with the dog to do a search. We had a drone up. We have the search and rescue team coming to help us," Broxterman said. According to officials, Mills is autistic and suffers from "a delayed mental capacity."There are two search teams leading the efforts to find Mills, Cincinnati Search and Recovery and Ohio LandSAR Search and Rescue."We're worried about the weather cause he's going to have hypothermia. He wasn't dressed to be out in the rain," said Cincinnati Search and Recovery Chief Jeff Shari. "We come out here and all of us are volunteers. We don't get paid. We're in it because of our heart. We want to find him so we're going to stay here until we find him."Shari said the fact that Mills is autistic changes the dynamic of the search."We do a calculation on age, mental capacity and how far of a distance he could have gone since he went missing. They're usually attracted to water, lights, he lives right next to Kroger so obviously we check Kroger first. We have a K9 out checking the retention ponds in the area," Shari said. "We will then hit is common routes."Search crews ask anyone who lives in the area to check their property and backyards, especially places Mills may have gone to get warm. Anyone who sees Mills is asked to call 911 or 1-888-637-1113.

A Clermont County grandmother is in despair.She said drugs took over the life of her 31-year-old grandson Christopher Simpson, to the point that he was armed with a knife and shot by a deputy Tuesday night. Now, she worries about what happens next, as her grandson recovers in the hospital.Officials said Simpson is stable, but family members said they've been told he has life-threatening injuries and has been through at least one surgery.They said they have tried to help him beat his addiction and there is nothing that seems to work."It's like a bad nightmare. I don't believe it all happened," Sandra Purdon said.Purdon is a grandmother who wishes she could save her grandson. He's in the hospital after being shot by a deputy near her home in Clermont County."I never would've dreamed that this would've happened. Never in a million years," Purdon said.She said a fight sparked over an open window and the air conditioner in her home at Richmond Estates on State Route 132.She said her grandson, Simpson, refused to close a window and the situation became a battle between two brothers. Simpson's mother called 911 as he apparently motioned as he would cut them."He like, pulled out this knife and started, like, pointing it, and just talking off the wall stuff," she said on the call.Purdon said Simpson has been into drugs and that they found a syringe on his bed.She said he got out of jail in January and they've tried to help him, but it has been frightening."He's got this thing that he's possessed by the devil. He was walking around here the day before yesterday carrying a Bible," Purdon said.She said they kicked him out leading up to the shooting.Investigators said Simpson kept inching closer with the knife."We wish that they would have just tased him instead of shooting him, if that was at all possible, you know," Purdon said.Now, this grandmother wonders if there's anything she can do."No matter what, he's my grandson, you know, and I don't want to see him die, so," Purdon said.No one else was hurt, according to investigators.Family members said while Simpson is apparently in stable condition, they're still waiting to see if he'll need any more surgeries.They told WLWT they were told he was shot twice in the chest.Ohio BCI is investigating the shooting by the deputy. No information has been released about the deputy involved. Authorities say Simpson has been charged with felonious assault, aggravated menacing and domestic violence.