Friends, family fear for missing man
A mother is distraught and friends distressed over a 37-year-old man who was last seen getting out of a taxi near his North Vancouver home at about 3:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Leigh Luyt had been out with a friend in east Vancouver Wednesday night and dropped off his friend, Anthony Pavlokovic, at his Kitsilano house between 10:30 and 11 p.m.
Luyt’s next-known whereabouts was between 3 and 3:30 a.m. when he was pulled over for excessive speeding on the Upper Levels Highway near Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver.
His car was impounded, but not before Luyt grabbed a red bag from inside and a taxi arrived to take him home.
“We really don’t know anything,” Jill Luyt, Leigh’s mom, said Monday. “It’s not normal for him to be away for long and not be in touch with me.”
North Vancouver RCMP are investigating whether there were any video cameras near where Luyt was dropped off, in the area of Tatlow Avenue and Marine Drive, a spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP detachment said.
There has been no banking activity on any of Leigh’s known cards or accounts.
“The big question is why he didn’t go home.” Pavlokovic said. “He gets out of the cab a block from his house with the bag he grabbed from his car, then he disappears ...”
Luyt is bipolar and has his ups and downs, his friends say. Luyt is almost 5-foot-11, 195 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the North Van RCMP at 604-985-1311.