AMBER ALERT Issued in NC for 3 Year Old Siraj Unir Davenport … Missing from a flea market in a Raleigh suburb
An AMBER ALERT has been issued for in North Carolina for 3 year old Siraj Unir Davenport. The Amber Alert was issued by law enforcement officials at 4:24 p.m. Sunday.
“We don’t know if he’s wandered off or been abducted,” Sgt. S.S. Jones of the Smithfield Police Department said.
An Amber Alert was issued by law enforcement officials at 4:24 p.m. Sunday.
The flea market is located next to a steep 20-foot drop into the Neuse River. Johnston County Sheriff’s Department’s water rescue teams were called to search the river Sunday evening.
Susie Barbour, who taught the child in preschool, said the child, nicknamed Raji, is bilingual in Malaysian and English. (Charlotte Observer)
The three year old went missing from a flea market in a Raleigh suburb. The flea market is located on Highway 301 South in Smithfield, a small town just south of Raleigh, NC
- Davenport is a Asian male
- approximately three-feet tall
- weighing 35 pounds
- dark brown hair
- brown eyes
- was last seen wearing a light blue t-shirt with a yellow truck on the front, dark blue sweat pants and Adidas tennis shoes.
Police search for missing 3-year-old (VIDEO)
If anyone has any information regarding Siraj Unir Davenport’s whereabouts, please call the Smithfield Police at 919-934-2121, 9-1-1 or Highway Patrol.
UPDATE I: Helicopter, crews searches for missing child
UPDATE II: STORY IS A HOAX … CHILD WAS NEVER MISSING!!!
It turns out that 3 year old Siraj Unir Davenport was never missing. The entire story was a hoax. Not only is the boy safe, he was never missing in the first place.
But authorities said none of that was true during a news conference Tuesday morning.
“I can tell you that the child was never in Smithfield. The child was not abducted from the flea market central square,” Smithfield police Chief Steve Gillikin said.
Local and federal law enforcement agencies spent a lot of resources in their search as they looked for the boy on Sunday and Monday, canvassing the area around the flea market.
“There’s been a lot of man hours spent, there’s been a lot of money spent, and unfortunately, in situations like this, it makes the next one that comes along that much more difficult,” Gillikin added.
Local mothers were also upset when they heard of the hoax.
“You get a little disgusted that someone would even pull something like that because you want people to pay attention when kids are missing,” Johnston County resident Caren Wharton said of the hoax.
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