BRIGHTON, TN -- Family and friends of a missing Tipton County man are asking for your help.
Forty year-old Howard Piner of Brighton has been missing since Wednesday, May 6, 2009. The father of three left his home for a doctor's appointment in Raleigh, but never showed up.
Investigators say Piner's credit card was used at a nearby gas station minutes before his scheduled appointment.
"You would know where Howard was. He would not have left his family stranded and no contact. His cell phone has been turned off and there is no bank activity going on," says Beverly, a family friend.
Piner is the chief anesthetist at “Bowden Medical Center” in Memphis.
Piner was supposed to show up for an 8:00 a.m. doctor's appointment Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at Methodist Hospital North at Austin Peay and New Covington Pike, but he didn't make it. At 7:30 a.m., investigators say Piner's debit card was used at a “Superlo” gas station pump seven miles south of the hospital on Covington Pike, but there has been no activity since.
Chief Donna Turner with the Tipton County Sheriff's Office says investigators were able to look at the surveillance video at that gas station, but it is not clear who was using the debit card because a pump was blocking the camera's view.
Howard Piner was last seen driving his 2005 grey two tone Ford F-150 crew cab truck with Tennessee tag 303 GDC.
If you have any information about this case, you can call your local law enforcement agency, or the Tipton County Sheriff's Office at 901-475-3300.
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