David Aarons stepped into the balmy Jamaican night and vanished.
The 68-year-old Whitby man had been staying at a hotel in the island’s capital of Kingston.
Aarons was last seen around 9:15 p.m. on Monday in front of the hotel.
Cops say that efforts to find the missing man have been futile.
“Reports from the New Kingston Police are that Aarons was last seen at a hotel in Kingston about 9:15pm, wearing a beige-coloured shirt, blue jeans pants and a pair of brown shoes. All efforts made to contact him have proven futile,” police said in a statement.
Despite the sun and sand, Jamaica is one of the most dangerous countries in the world with a sky-high homicide rate.
Among those most vulnerable are Jamaican expats who return to the islands to retire after decades in Canada, the U.S. and U.K.
One former police official told The Guardian that this group was at “extreme risk” of violent crime because they’re considered “soft targets.”
Since 2012, at least 85 Canadians, Brits, and Americans have been murdered on the tropical paradise.
In January 2018, retired Winnipeg couple Melbourne Flake, 81, and Etta Flake, 70, were found murdered in their St. Thomas winter home.
A Canadian couple has been found dead in their home in Jamaica with their hands and feet bound.
He had been bludgeoned to death and his wife was suffocated in what cops called a robbery gone awry. One man has been arrested.
“All I know is [they were] innocent people. Somebody must have had so much cruel hate,” their daughter Debbie Olfert told Global News at the time.
I hope he is found alive. He could be suffering some form of medical condition that affects his memory.