By Glenn Hicks and Bryan Eneas

Missing Shellbrook man found after exhaustive search

Apr 25, 2018 | 8:56 PM

James Mumm, the Shellbrook man who went missing Tuesday morning has been found alive. He was taken to hospital but was believed to be in relatively good health despite his ordeal.

The discovery, in a rural field late Wednesday, was the culmination of an extraordinary effort by police, search teams and the wider community who went into action almost immediately after the man was reported missing.

“We are so thrilled with the result of this search,” RCMP Inspector Roberta McKale told paNOW Wednesday evening.” We had searched all day and our final group went out on a grid search and located him. This is the culmination of training and community effort.”

McKale highlighted the incredible efforts by so many people who kept on hunting for the man who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and mild dementia.

“The community walked every street until they had no energy but people brought sandwiches and food and that [spirit] kept us going,” she said. “We had a hundred people here over the two days and the effort was total, from the town hall printing posters to ladies with strollers putting them up all over town.”

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McKale said Shellbrook was a dedicated community who did it all for Mumm.

The man’s family was overjoyed at hearing the news he’d been located.

“We’re ecstatic,” brother-in-law Ron Anderson told paNOW. “ We’d walked the bush for miles and then got the phone call [Jim] had been found two miles from us. It has been hell, we haven’t slept for two days.”

Anderson said Mumm was smiling when he was taken to hospital.

“He must be tough because he hasn’t eaten for two days,” he said. “I figure they’ll probably just clean him up and send him to bed. The sad thing about all this is he’s just 68 year old.”

But Anderson said the family had learned a lesson.

‘We’ll have him on a GPS system of some sort of wrist tag from now on,” he said.

With files from Bryan Eneas

glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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