A Domino’s pizza deliveryman vanished last week, sending his family into a panic that only worsened when a stranger made a mysterious call to his brother’s cell phone.
The family of 42-year-old Shuefuab Xiong said he left for his job at a Domino’s in Apple Valley, Minn., on Tuesday evening — but never made it home.
That’s extraordinarily out of character for Xiong, a reliable worker who comes and goes like clockwork for his job, they said.
His frantic family added that it hasn’t heard from him since.
“The customers all called back, notifying Domino’s that they never received their orders,” the missing man’s sister, Nischa Xiong, told ABC 9. “We’re lost, we’re confused, we’re scared, we hope that he is OK.”
The family launched a search for Shuefuab the next day, to no avail, and Nischa has created a website to help people look for him.
But his trail has gone cold, except for one clue: a stranger who rang Shuefuab’s brother’s phone off the hook.
“The day he went missing, on Jan. 14, my [other] brother had an unknown number call him around 6:45 p.m.,” Nischa said. “He did not pick up because he thought it might be a spam call.”
The sibling eventually called the number back, and the person who picked up said Shuefuab had called from a Target parking lot in Richfield.
“[They] said that my brother approached him in his vehicle, knocked on the window and asked to use his phone,” Nischa said.
The man claimed that Shuefuab tried to call his family three times but gave up and left, the outlet said.
Shuefuab’s worried family is offering a $20,000 reward for his safe return.
