On September 13, Crystal Sutton and her sister, Delana Sutton-Wiggins, got concerning calls from their father: "Vincent was having an episode."

Crystal said she went to check on Vincent the next day at their father’s house in California City. “When I got there, [Vincent] was leaving. He was walking down the dirt road,” she said.

Crystal says she asked her brother where he was going and he said he was going to church. “I said, ‘OK, you going to the church, come right back,’” she recalled.

Vincent came back, but returned without shoes. He had also become nonverbal. Crystal started to get concerned and called the police. “I’m calling the police and I’m asking for help and they just like, ‘There’s nothing we can do,’” she said.

Crystal continued to worry about her brother after she got back to her own home. That night, her phone rang. “My dad called and was like, ‘Um, you know, your brother walked out and I can’t find him,’” she recalled. “My dad kept saying, ‘It’s nighttime, he don’t go out at nighttime.’”

Vincent did not return the next morning. His family reported him missing.