Missing person found in prison after suspected mission incident

Eric Travers, a missing 30-year-old man who was last seen on April 30 and reported missing at the Mission police station, has been found alive – in the San Francisco County Jail.

Travers traveled from North Carolina to San Francisco to audition for the band Spirit Hustler, and according to South Carolina’s WNPE, he was last seen in the Tenderloin last week. His brother started a fundraiser over the weekend, asking for help to fly to San Francisco and hire a private investigator. “My mother is sick with fear and so am I,” the brother wrote.

Travers has since been found in jail, where he was charged with assault.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, on May 2nd at approximately 2 p.m., a white male, 6 feet tall and weighing approximately 250 pounds, was arrested at 21st Street and Shotwell Street for throwing objects at vehicles and people had thrown. He is said to have thrown large stones towards two people, damaging a vehicle.

After a police investigation, the man was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and later transported to the San Francisco County Jail.

The arrested man initially gave officers a false name but was later identified as Travers. He was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of aggravated vandalism.

According to this brother’s fundraiser, Travers suffers from epilepsy and has not been on medication since his disappearance. “Eric has severe epilepsy and all of his medications were left in the hotel room to which he has not returned,” he wrote. “He needs them to survive.”

It is unclear whether the lack of medication affected Travers’ behavior.