CLEVELAND — On June 17, 2023, 15-year-old Keshaun Williams went missing in Cleveland.
Monday now marks one year since his disappearance, which also sparked an Ohio Amber Alert as authorities and his family continue to search for answers.
“Please, whoever my child is with, please return my child," his mother said during a press conference back in April. "He is underage. He has no business being out here without his parent. This is crazy. It’s not safe. It’s not cool. If anybody knows something, please come forward today. Keshaun, if you’re watching this, I love you. I’m going to find you and I’m going to get you home safe.”
She added that "somebody knows something" when asking for anybody with information to reach out to police.
OHIO AMBER ALERT FOR KESHAUN REMAINS IN EFFECT
Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy has chaired the Northeast Ohio Amber Alert Committee since 2014. In that time he says they've issued 36 Amber Alerts -- 35 of which have been successful. All that remains is the one issued for Keshaun.
"This one is basically an outlier in contrast to the other ones," Chief Majoy said. "In other words, the longest one we had prior to that went on for maybe four or five days. For one to go on for a year, it is definitely extraordinary."
Chief Majoy says the Amber Alert has remained active because doing so continues to highlight that Keshaun may be in danger.
"I think the key is that under the circumstances you know there are scours of missing persons," Chief Majoy says. "In Northeast Ohio, at any given moment, there are 400 missing persons including children and we want to give attention to all of those, but the ones with the Amber Alerts -- those are the ones that have pointed that the child is in danger, they’re in jeopardy of physical harm to themselves things like that."
A reward of $22,500 has been offered for information in the case. Tipsters are asked to call 1-866-4-WANTED.
Keshaun is described as 5'7" tall and weighs 130 pounds with brown eyes. He was last seen wearing black jogging pants and a T-shirt.
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