NEW YORK, NY – The New York City Police Department has issued an alert for a missing child in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn today.
UPDATE: NYPD has reported the boy has been returned home safely.
Detectives investigating the incident said 7-year-old [name redacted] left his Eastern Parkway home last night at around 10:30 pm and has not been seen since.
He is described as being approximately 4’11” tall, with a dark complexion, medium build and short, black hair. He was last seen wearing a black bomber jacket with gray fur around neck, a blue & white hooded shirt, black & gray Nike tech sweatpants and black & white sneakers.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.