{"id":62,"date":"2026-09-28T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/search-continues-for-missing-man-in-boone-county\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:15:57","slug":"search-continues-for-missing-man-in-boone-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/search-continues-for-missing-man-in-boone-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Search continues for missing man in Boone County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DANVILLE, W.Va. \u2013<\/strong>\u2013 The search for a missing autistic man in Boone County continues, but so far there\u2019s been no sign of the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alex Shear, 24, went missing from his home in Danville last Tuesday. He was spotted several hours later in the community of Low Gap. Since then, nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery hour and every day that passes gets more and more concerning to us,\u201d said Boone County Sheriff Chad Barker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The search in the area was comprehensive over the weekend. There were dozens of volunteers and out-of-area first responders who joined the search. The effort included helicopters, drones, tracking and cadaver dogs, divers, and underwater drones. Still, no trace of him was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were able to follow up on any leads we had that we thought were credible,\u201d said Barker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barker said they were able to exhaust about everything they could with the information they had developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt makes me think he\u2019s not in that area and that he left that area. Maybe he hitched a ride with somebody, but there\u2019s also a possibility that he\u2019s in the water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the lengthy time-line, Barker said search teams have not given up hope of finding Shear alive. However, with each passing day, and cooler nights, the hopes begin to get more and more shaky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shear and his family were new to the area and hadn\u2019t lived in Danville long enough for Alex to develop any relationships or friendships to where he would know somebody well enough to go with them. He may also not respond to rescue teams searching for him for the same reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anyone has any information on Shear\u2019s whereabouts they\u2019re asked to contact the Boone County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DANVILLE, W.Va. \u2013\u2013 The search for a missing autistic man in Boone County continues, but so far there\u2019s been no sign of the individual. Alex Shear, 24, went missing from his home in Danville last Tuesday. He was spotted several hours later in the community\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wchsnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}