‘Please come back’: St. Paul wife searches for missing husband
ST. PAUL, Ore. (KOIN) — Ten days ago Gary Singh Grewal, who owns the St. Paul Market in the small Marion County town, was seen walking on the Willamette River Bridge around 10 a.m. His car was found later on the south side of the bridge, near Highway 219 between Newberg and St. Paul.
He hasn’t been seen since. And his wife told KOIN 6 News she has no idea how he just vanished.
His wife, Kelly Kaur, said he usually went shopping between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. “It’s a regular time to go.”
“For the last 4 years, we’ve been a part of this community and everybody likes us,” she said. “He was friends to everybody, If he goes outside everyone would say hello to him. He knew everyone’s name.”
Former St. Paul Mayor Kim Wallace said Grewal was very outgoing and always willing to help.
“They’ve become an integral part. They took over the store over 3 years ago and remodeled it. It’s really become a hub for the community,” Wallace said. “Hardworking guy from early in the morning to late at night.”
The Oregon State Police is now involved in the search that has, so far, not turned up anything. OSP Lt. Christopher Zohner and Lt. Matt Wilkinson from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, who runs that county’s search and rescue operations, briefed the community Saturday on the search efforts for the Woodburn resident.
During the roughly 90-minute meeting, Zohner and Wilkinson presented a timeline of the day when Grewal went missing, including summarizing “the enforcement effort to date, which included interviews of witnesses in the area at the time of the disappearance, forensic analysis of some security camera from Hazenberg Dairy on the east side of the (Willamette River) bridge and the next phase” of the operation, said former St. Paul Mayor Kim Wallis.
His friends and family are hoping to find dashcam footage of that day. The Grewal family is offering a $10,000 reward for any information that will bring him home.
“Please come back,” Kaur said, through tears. “I’m missing him a lot. I can’t live without him.”
A GoFundMe has been set up to help in the search efforts for the family.
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“Community members talked about their efforts to assist in the search, which included searching the river by boat, riverbank on foot and drone searches covering the St. Paul bridge to east of Butteville,” Wallis said.
The Portland Tribune, a media partner with KOIN 6 News, contributed to this report.
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