51-year-old man reported missing from Morgan Park

Edmund Smith | Chicago Police

A 51-year-old man was reported missing Thursday from the Far South Side Morgan Park neighborhood.

Edmund Smith has been missing since Dec. 27 from the 11100 block of South Green Street, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.

Police said Smith frequents the areas of the 9300 to 11100 blocks of Halsted Street and the 7900 block of South Yates Avenue. He takes medical and “battles mental health challenges.”

Smith was last seen wearing a black, knit cap, a black, puffy vest, black pants and black gym shoes, police said. He was carrying a gray book bag.

Smith was described as a black man, 5-foot-8 and 198 pounds, with brown eyes and black and gray hair, police said.

Anyone with information should call Area South detectives at (312) 747-8276.