The family of missing Crown Point resident Michael Hernandez says it’s out of character for him not to call home or show up at work since Friday night.
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Hernandez, 23, was reported missing to the Crown Point Police on Saturday. Police did not respond to a message for comment on Sunday. He was last seen leaving a bar on the Square around 11 p.m. Friday in Crown Point, where he had watched the Chicago Blackhawks game with a co-worker.
Hernandez’s mother, Tiffany Longoria, said she last spoke to her son on the phone while he was headed to her house from the bar. He was driving Longoria’s dark blue 2008 Toyota Scion.
“He said that he was just down the street, and then he called his ex-wife and told her that he was coming home as well,” Hernandez said. “His (two) girls, my granddaughters, are sick and he said that he would come over and see them (Sunday). He hasn’t shown up and it’s just out of character for him. He wouldn’t say that he will do something if he doesn’t plan on being there.
“Those girls are his priority.”
Longoria said that her son is 5-foot-8, weighs 165 pounds and is of Mexican descent.
Hernandez’s family and friends contacted the police after he failed to show up Saturday at his salesman job at Team Toyota in Schererville.
“That’s not him at all,” Longoria said. “He loves his job and it’s not like him to fail to call up or nothing.”
Longoria shared several photos of her smiling son on Facebook on Sunday in an effort to find any information.
“It’s the ugliest feeling to not know what’s happened to him,” she said.