{"id":313260,"date":"2026-10-24T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313260\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:08:09","slug":"pittsburgh-police-ask-for-help-locating-80-year-old-man-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313260\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police ask for help locating 80-year-old man with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Getty, 80, has been reported missing and was last seen on Friday evening. Pittsburgh police say he suffers from dementia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792829289_552_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Nick Matoney\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Pittsburgh police are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating a missing 80-year-old man who they say has dementia.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Police said William Getty left his home along Waterfront Drive on Washington\u2019s Landing on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">He was later seen walking near the intersection of 40th Street and Butler Street in Lawrenceville at around 7:40 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police said Getty has experienced severe memory loss at times.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">He was described as being five-foot-ten and 160 pounds with hazel eyes.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">According to information from Pittsburgh police, he was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black coat and possibly had a red shirt on under the coat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Getty, 80, has been reported missing and was last seen on Friday evening. Pittsburgh police say he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[127945,127943,127946,12711,23509,9146,86,8972,38658,4125,46371,73,75,74,745,1887,7091,127944,10254],"class_list":["post-313260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-40th-street","tag-80-year-old-man","tag-black-coat","tag-butler-street","tag-dementia","tag-help","tag-home","tag-intersection","tag-landing","tag-missing","tag-p-m-friday","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-washington","tag-waterfront-drive","tag-william-getty","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}