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The search for a retired physician who went missing on the morning of May 14 in a Podil park where he  was last seen has finished but led to no findings, according to his son's blog.

Greg Sloop’s blog added that Dr. Jay
Sloop, 77, had made an ATM withdrawal shortly after he left for a morning walk
approximately at 7: a.m. on May 14 through Zamkova Hora, a wooded park in the
Podil neighborhood, according to security camera footage.

The footage didn’t show
anyone with him, and “it doesn’t appear to show him in any distress or being
coerced,” blogged Greg Sloop.

“No bank transactions have
been attempted, related to Jay (Sloop), since he disappeared,” added Greg
Sloop.

A Ukrainian TV news report said that the American had left his money and cell phone in his hotel room that morning. The news report has footage of Jay Sloop using an ATM near Zamkova Hora and an outdoor market near Kontraktova Square. 

A woman interviewed by local TSN channel claims to have seen him forced into a car, but police don’t believe he was abducted. 

The Yakima, Wash. resident’s
grandson, Jeff Sloop, has been in Kyiv leading the search consisting of local
and American volunteers.

Greg Sloop blogged that
the family isn’t aware that the former obstetrician was “kidnapped or otherwise
taken by anyone.”

He said U.S. embassy staff
and the U.S. State Department have been providing assistance, including members
of a local church.

Jay Sloop was on a medical
mission for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, for whom he works as a health
care director at the church’s regional headquarters in Spokane.