Family Takes to the Community for Help in Locating Missing Man

The family of Mason Patnett is in a race against time after he went missing on Sunday afternoon. The last anyone heard from the thirty-eight-year-old Vista del Mar resident was when he updated his social media profiles that day. Then, radio silence. When his girlfriend returned from a long trip, she found the house open and Mason nowhere to be found. Today, his family took to the streets of Ladyville and Vista del Mar, distributing and posting flyers with his details. Neighbors and old classmates joined the search, with one even offering space in his shop for a flyer. News Five’s Marion Ali was on the ground with the family, retracing Mason’s last known steps. Here’s that report.

 

Marion Ali, Reporting

It’s been four days now since Mason Patnett was last seen alive. The thirty-eight-year-old construction worker was said to be updating his social media profiles on Sunday, and then all contact with him were lost. Today his sisters were handing out flyers and asking people to assist them in locating him. In 2012, Patnett was charged along with another man with attempted murder, but in 2018, the charges were withdrawn from against him when his would-be accomplice and the same man he was accused of shooting eventually ended up dead. Nikita Patnett told us she does not believe his past is involved in his disappearance.

 

Nikita Patnett, Sister of Mason Patnett

“ Mason was actually young, too, that was like ten years ago. So, he was like in his early twenties, I would say. I don’t believe that it has anything to do with that. Like, it’s been years now since. My brother has been growing into a mature young man. You know, he’s come a long way from who he used to be, the things he used to do, and he’s grown into a really nice mature man. The reason why we come out together is because my brother usually that’s somebody will spend his time at home and for the fact that he not at home for days, he has not fed his dogs. My brother has three dogs and he has not fed his dogs and he nuh deal with his plants and stuff like that. So that does raise concern for me.”

 

Kevin Dawson owns a shop in Vista del Mar and said he also went to primary school with Patnett. He allowed Patnett’s family to put up one of the flyers on his shop.

 

Kevin Dawson, Shop Owner, Vista del Mar

“We’re all human beings and we need to work together.  So, when things like this happen, we have to work together with people. So, it’s very shocking. It’s 2025 and we need to come together and make a change. And, you know, by us doing this, we can find a solution to it. When we were small all of us went to primary school together at Ladyville Seventh Day Adventist School The Adventist primary school so I know his sisters very well, and I know them very well.”

 

Joining the search for Patnett today was his neighbour, Aaron Wilson.

 

Aaron Wilson, Neighbour of Mason Patnett

“He’s my neighbor. So, that’s one of the reasons. Next reason is that my two lee youths’ uncle, when I use to look up pahn dehn uncle because that da how I know the man, because the two lee bwai weh I record fi do music that da dehn uncle. So, how I nuh wa know ah? You understand? Plus I know the lee young bwai dehn ma and I know the family and I di assist them and I wa get to the bottom of it. I never mi di focus much pahn it, but now I di focus pahn it because I realize that, you know what, my mind deh somewhere else and this happen right ya. So then I join, and if I have to swim, if I have to jump eena anything, because I mek fi that. And we can get to the bottom of it, believe me you.”

 

Marion Ali for News Five.

 

Patnett is described as a slim, 5’7″ Creole man with long, curly hair, a brown complexion, and tattoos on both hands. He was last seen wearing a green shirt and green camouflage cargo shorts. Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 922 or report to the nearest police station.