Suicidal patient in Mass. missing

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) - A 21-year-old man being transported to a hospital for mental health treatment fled from the ambulance and has been missing for days in the Berkshires.

Authorities say Gregory Hillman, whose family is from Darien, Conn., was being taken from a hospital in Pittsfield to a more secure facility in North Adams on Monday.

When the ambulance arrived at the North Adams hospital, Hillman ran away.

Police have been searching the area and issued a regional missing person alert.

Hillman is 5-foot-10, slim and last was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and tan pants.

A family home in nearby North Pownal, Vt., was checked but Hillman was not there.

Hillman's father, Peter, says his son is a danger only to himself.

He left a note saying he planned to drown himself in the Atlantic.