YAKIMA — As the search for Dr. Jay Sloop entered its fourth day in Kiev, organizers explained why volunteers focused their efforts on a large urban park in the Ukrainian capital.
The retired Yakima obstetrician was last seen Tuesday after he left for a morning walk in Kiev, where he had been helping set up a lifestyle center for the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Surveillance video from Tuesday shows Sloop, 77, entering Zamkova Gora, a heavily wooded park in the city center, but not leaving, according to a news release Friday from the church.
“While this information has helped to narrow the search, it does not make things easy,” said Dr. Fred Hardinge, a colleague of Sloop’s. “The park is … a flat-topped hill with very steep sides covered in some rocky outcroppings, trees, brush and bushes and some patches of long, untrimmed grass. A set of steel stairs leads 200-250 feet to the top.”
