ST. LOUIS — It's been an agonizing time for Tecona Donald-Sullivan and her family.
"I just have a lot of unanswered questions. I haven't slept in days," Donald-Sullivan said.
She said she hasn't talked to her grandson, T'Montez Hurt, in nearly two weeks, and with each passing minute, her fears grow.
"He's 19 years old and he's 6-foot-1. How does he just vanish?" Hurt's worried grandmother said.
Hurt is a freshman at Missouri Western University in St. Joseph, Missouri, which is about an hour from Kansas City, Missouri.
Hurt's grandmother said on the morning of Feb. 1, T'Montez called her while under some form of mental distress.
"He just sounded so disoriented, child-like and was not himself. I don't know what happened, but he was definitely in distress," she added.
She said he was at the home of a woman he'd recently met. She also admitted her grandson smoked marijuana.
"I was talking to him on FaceTime and I kept on hearing him ask the girl, 'What did you give me? What did you lace me with?' I was like 'Who is she T'Montez?' He's like, 'Granny I don't know," Donald-Sullivan said.
That's when Donald-Sullivan then called the Kansas City hospital which sent police to her home.
"Police were asking him what happened. He said I think somebody laced me," she said.
She said he went to an emergency room.
"They should have sent him upstairs to find out what had him mentally disturbed. They let him sit there for a few hours, gave him sodas to drink and then gave him a voucher to catch a cab to a Greyhound bus station," Donald-Sullivan said.
Surveillance video captured him hours later trying to walk inside the bus station, but it was closed. He hasn't been seen since.
"I learned that the bus station's hours are between 4 p.m. and midnight. Why would that hospital give him a voucher that early? she asked. "I think they should have known that the bus station was closed. Again, I just feel that they should have kept him. I just don't know what to think. My heart says that he's alive," she added.
Donald-Sullivan canvassed Kansas City streets and passed out 700 flyers with his photo. She will return to the city on Tuesday to continue searching for him.
"I am gong to pass out more flyers and search more streets. I got to go back there. My grandson is still there. I got to get to my baby," she said crying.
Donald-Sullivan said she also went to the home where she believed her grandson was and spoke to the woman who lives there. However, she said she was unsatisfied with the woman's response, which was unhelpful in her attempt to find out what happened to her grandson.
On Monday, a spokesperson with Kansas City police said Hurt is listed as a missing person, a report has been taken and assigned to a case detective.