WBRZ - Baton Rouge

BATON ROUGE – Authorities are looking for a patient that walked away from the Greenwell Springs Hospital last night.

Casey Hicks with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said 30-year-old Crandell Turner left the hospital last night around 10:48 p.m.

Deputies checked the area but were not able to locate him, and put out an automated phone call to residents within a five-mile radius of the hospital this morning.

Anyone with information as to Turner’s locations should contact the sheriff’s office at (225) 389-5000.

News 2’s Michael Shingleton will have the latest on the search efforts starting on News 2 at Noon.

Image courtesy of East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office.