The National Park Service continues to ask the public to contact the park dispatch center at 86 or Swain County Dispatch at 82 if they were in the Deep Creek area between Wednesday, April 19 and Sunday, April 23 and believe they may have seen Kaye. Update: Body found in Asheville section of French Broad River by boaters, police sayÄ®arlier news releases from the Smokies said that Kaye "may be suffering from a mental health crisis," and that he is "an experienced hiker, camper, and hunter and had reserved a campsite at Deep Creek Campground for 14 days." Park rangers also used a drone in areas where vegetation cover allowed, according to the Park Service.Äowntown Asheville: Buncombe County Sheriff's deputy shot, APD officer injured outside downtown Asheville jail Ultimately, more than 300 people from 57 agencies and four states searched the ground on foot, on horseback and with canine teams looking for Kaye and clues to his location. The NPS started the missing person investigation the same day and launched a search focused on areas near where Kaye was last seen. His family reported him missing April 26. Kaye, described as a 5-foot, 10-inch tall white male with brown hair and blue eyes, and weighing about 200 pounds, was last seen April 23 near a backcountry campsite in the Deep Creek area of the park near Bryson City in Swain County. The National Park Service said in a May 6 news release that the extensive ground search for Gordon Kaye, 69, of Tampa, Florida, would transition from an "active search to a limited, but continuous search, which may include backcountry patrols, air searches when practical, and outreach to hikers heading into the area." Two weeks since he was last seen and 11 days into a search for a missing Florida man in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials have called off the active field search.
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