A 55-year-old Gallatin man has been missing for more than three weeks, and his family says the medication he depends on for basic daily functions ran out long ago. Eugene Wrenne left his Gallatin home on the evening of July 19 and never came back, according to the Gallatin Police Department, which issued a Silver Alert for him that day. He may be driving a silver 2014 Infiniti QX60 with Tennessee license plate DP27650, and attempts to locate him have so far been unsuccessful.
Wrenne lives with Parkinson's disease and requires daily medication for essential functions including walking and swallowing, according to a report from NewsChannel 5 Nashville, which cited his family's warning that his supply of the medication had completely run out. That detail is central to why investigators and relatives describe his disappearance as urgent: without his medication, Wrenne's family says he cannot safely function or return home unassisted. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation renewed its public appeal for help finding him in a Facebook post published Monday evening.
Traffic camera tracking last captured Wrenne's Infiniti traveling through Lebanon, Tennessee, shortly after he left his Gallatin home the night of July 19, per the same NewsChannel 5 Nashville account. Lebanon sits roughly 20 miles southeast of Gallatin in Middle Tennessee. He was last seen in person around 9:50 p.m. that same night, wearing black gym shorts and a black T-shirt, according to Main Street Media of Tennessee. Wrenne is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair.
Search Efforts Point Toward Hermitage and Percy Priest Lake
Metro Nashville Councilman Jordan Huffman said in a public update that law enforcement investigators believed Wrenne and his vehicle might be in the Hermitage or Percy Priest Lake areas, according to a post shared on his Facebook page. Those areas lie southwest of Gallatin, near Nashville, and represent a search zone beyond the immediate Sumner and Wilson county area where he was last tracked. Huffman identified Wrenne as a former neighbor in his appeal for public help.
Anyone with information about Wrenne's whereabouts is asked to contact the Gallatin Police Department at 615-452-1313 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND, as noted in the agency's own post on the case.
How Tennessee's Silver Alert System Works
Tennessee law requires local police departments to log a missing person report into the National Crime Information Center database before requesting that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation broadcast a statewide Silver Alert, under Tennessee Code § 38-6-121. The alerts can be issued for missing adults 18 or older who have physical, mental, or cognitive disabilities, or for seniors 60 and older believed to be in imminent danger, according to WBIR. That disability provision is what makes Wrenne, at 55, eligible for the alert despite being under 60.
Tennessee's standardized statewide Silver Alert framework took effect on July 1, 2021, through legislation sponsored by State Senator Becky Massey and Representative Jeremy Faison alongside the advocacy group Alzheimer's Tennessee, WBIR reported. Before that, the state lacked a unified statewide alert mechanism for missing vulnerable adults. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported in February that its Silver Alert Program, run in partnership with Alzheimer's Tennessee, has helped locate and safely return more than 500 missing vulnerable individuals since 2021.
The state also promotes the TBI Find App, a mobile tool that sends real-time notifications on active Silver Alerts and missing persons cases directly to residents' smartphones, according to TN.gov. Alzheimer's Tennessee also distributes standardized Silver Alert Kits to families, letting caregivers prepare medical, physical, and vehicle documentation in advance so there's no delay when reporting a missing vulnerable adult, the WBIR report noted.
Wrenne's current location and physical condition remain unknown as the search enters its fourth week. With his medication supply already exhausted according to his family, officials continue to urge anyone who spots the silver Infiniti QX60 or has information on Wrenne's whereabouts to reach out immediately to local or state authorities.
