Missing from Holiday Inn, found near creek

Joel Wallick was last seen walking from Starke’s Holiday Inn Express around 11:50 a.m. Surveillance footage captured the Pinellas County resident as he walked out of the hotel.

BY DAN HILDEBRAN

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The Bradford County Sheriff’s Office said they located the body of a man reported missing on April 8, four days after his disappearance.

Joel Wallick was last seen walking from Starke’s Holiday Inn Express around 11:50 a.m. Surveillance footage captured the Pinellas County resident as he walked out of the hotel.

Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith said the Madeira Beach man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.