North Carolina Nightclub Bouncer Goes Missing After Car Accident, Search Continues

Friends and family of a North Carolina nightclub bouncer, who went missing after getting into a car accident while driving back home on May 4, are still looking for him six days later.

Robert Richardson, 41, was reported missing by his friends, who said he disappeared after getting into a minor car accident on Wednesday evening, ABC News reported. Richardson was driving back home after meeting his friends for dinner when he got into the crash, Kensley Perry, a friend of Richardson, told the outlet.

Cops arrived at the scene after the accident and both the cars involved in the crash were towed, WRAL-TV reported. Richardson reportedly left his work laptop, work phone, and cell phone in the car that was towed. "He talked to the police. Police let him go. Nothing was wrong," Perry told WRAL-TV.

The man was last spotted on May 5 walking toward downtown Raleigh but there have been no sightings since. His friends believe that the man had been disoriented after suffering a head injury in the crash and forgot his way home. "He could have not been strapped into his seatbelt and hit his head pretty hard," Perry told WRAL-TV.

"He's out there somewhere and somebody knows something," said Perry, who works as head of security at The Village Entertainment Complex in Raleigh's Glenwood South nightlife district. Richardson reportedly works at the same nightclub as a bouncer.

Richardson's friends and relatives fanned out areas in Raleigh and even checked hospitals and homeless shelters looking for him. They have interrogated homeless persons in the area for any leads about Richardson but to no avail.

"We've done flyers pretty much everywhere in the downtown area and where the wreck site was," Perry told WRAL-TV. "Someone somewhere has seen something, they know something," Perry added. "They just don’t know they’ve seen something."

Richardson is said to be around 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-3 in height and weighs around 280 pounds.

When asked whether Richardson disappeared after substance abuse, Perry said he is "not that type of guy. No history of that, to our knowledge, whatsoever," according to My Central Oregon. Perry called Richardson a "nice, fun-loving social dude" who "always got a smile on his face."