Updated, 9:47 a.m. March 11: The missing man has been found safe in Tampa, authorities said.

Earlier:

Police are searching for an 88-year-old man with dementia who has gone missing while visiting his family in St. Petersburg.

Antonio Hunt, of Orlando, was last seen at his family's 78th Avenue North apartment in St. Pete. His granddaughter last saw him asleep on the couch around 3 a.m. Friday, authorities said. When she awoke around 7 a.m., he was gone.

Hunt is about 5-foot-11, 160 pounds, with gray combed-back hair and a gray mustache. He was last seen wearing a black polo-style shirt, black pants, black socks and no shoes, according to St. Petersburg Police.

Hunt is from St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and speaks both English and French. He also suffers from dementia and speaks only French when he is frightened, police said. He is unfamiliar with the St. Pete area.

Anyone with information about Hunt should contact the police department's communications center at 727-893-7780.

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