Three months after disappearing from his West Philadelphia neighborhood, Alexander Fitzgerald is still missing
Three months after reporting her son missing, Claudia Fitzgerald still hopes for her son’s return.
www.inquirer.com
''In the last three months, Claudia Fitzgerald has celebrated the arrival of a grandson, even as she’s agonized over the disappearance of her own son.
“It’s been bittersweet,” she said.
Claudia’s adult son, Alexander Fitzgerald, disappeared while she was at the hospital with her daughter, who was giving birth to her first grandchild.
A neighbor told police that on June 21, he spotted Alexander, 33, a Black man who is 6-foot-1 and weighs 180 pounds, walking near the 7200 block of Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia with two Black men who the neighbor did not recognize.''
Alexander hasn’t been heard from since.''
''Fitzgerald said she had been worried the minute she got home that June day and saw that the door of the home they shared was slightly ajar with her son’s key still in the lock.''
''Alexander was on medication for mental health issues that were first diagnosed as an adolescent. He stuck to a routine that included going to a nearby gym and then coming home, and always picking up his phone when his mother called. And he was “trusting, sometimes too trusting” of strangers, she said.''
''There have been a few new developments, Singleton told me. Phone records pulled by police, who are still actively investigating the case, showed that his cell phone was last used on June 24, three days after he went missing, somewhere around Belmont Avenue near Fairmount Park.''
Claudia Fitzgerald in her son's apartment in July.Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer