Police say a man who who went missing overnight from his South Salt Lake residential nursing facility returned on his own Friday.

South Salt Lake police spokesman Gary Keller said 66-year-old Jimmy Brown said he had spent the night at a friend’s house. He walked back to the Avalon Valley Rehabilitation Center, at 2472 S. 300 East, late Friday morning.

Keller said Brown was reported unharmed and safe.

SSLPD had issued an endangered and missing person’s alert late Thursday night for Brown, who had left the facility at 1 p.,m. but had not returned by 11 p.m. as expected.

Police said Brown’s cell phone was inactive, and as of Friday morning attempts to locate him had been unsuccessful.