‘You’re supposed to be here with us,’ Family speaks out on missing Danville man
DANVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) — A Danville family is pleading for their loved one to come home, and they’re asking for the community’s help to find him.
33-year-old Wes Kelley was last seen on May 10. His family said when he didn’t pick up his daughters for the weekend, they started to suspect something was wrong. And when no one heard from him on Mother’s Day their suspicions were confirmed.
“You’re supposed to be here with us. With your kids, with your family. And it’s killing us, not knowing where you are,” Tyrus Bibbs said through tears.
Wes Kelley is a father, son, and brother, and a friend to many in Danville.
“You kind of see everybody on the Facebooks repost and everything. And I say a person, he was he touched everybody,” Bibbs said.
He came all the way from Texas in hopes of spending some time with Kelley. Now he’s using his extended stay to search for him instead.
“[I] went over there again. There’s some more knocking. And I looked in his car. That’s when I found his phone dead,” Bibbs said. “And I was like, ‘Well, that’s not good.’ So me and the group chat, I was just like, ‘We need to do something more than just talking amongst each other.”
Courtney Nantz shares two daughters with Kelley. She said she talked to him on Friday about picking up the girls on Saturday.
“It was an alarm bell for us because he picks them up religiously every weekend,” Nantz said. “Doesn’t miss them.”
“He loved those kids,” Bibbs said. “He would cancel plans with me in a heartbeat.”
The search also revealed new information to his family that raised their concerns even more.
“His car not working, you know, he was back and forth with jobs that we didn’t know about,” Bibbs said. “Like I said, we were so tight that we couldn’t talk about anything,”
The family has been searching the areas Kelley frequents — Ellsworth park, where he goes with daughters, and in the wooded area near where he lives. They found nothing.
“If you really do know something, I don’t care if you do it anonymous, I don’t care how you do it, let us know so we can at least bring him home safely,” Bibbs said.
Bibbs said that on Friday, they’ll be handing out flyers and forming a search party. They asked for the community to come out and help or reach out with any information.
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