Dallas police are asking for the public's help finding two missing girls, 5-year-old A'mree Hines and 13-year-old Briasia Landrum, who disappeared together early this morning from the 1400 block of Belleview Street, just south of Interstate 30. Investigators say the girls were last seen around 5 a.m. and may need assistance. The case has been logged under report number 114099-2026.
According to CBS Texas, the pair vanished from the same stretch of Belleview Street south of the interstate, an area within Dallas's Cedars neighborhood. A bulletin from DPD Beat describes A'mree as a 5-year-old Black female with brown eyes and purple-and-pink hair styled in a ponytail, standing about 3 feet tall and weighing roughly 50 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white shirt with yellow circles, light blue jeans and sandals, and carrying a small pink glittery backpack.
The same bulletin describes Briasia as a 13-year-old Black female with brown eyes and a short blonde haircut, standing about 5 feet tall and weighing approximately 100 pounds. She was last seen wearing a dark blue short shirt and blue-and-pink Playboy pajama shorts, and like A'mree, she was carrying a small pink glittery backpack. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Dallas Police Department at (214) 671-4268.
A Disappearance Near Dallas Police Headquarters
The 1400 block of Belleview sits inside Dallas's historic Cedars neighborhood, about 0.2 miles from the Cedars DART rail station and directly adjacent to Dallas Police Department headquarters, according to DART. That puts the girls' last known location within a short walk of both public transit and the agency now leading the search.
Because A'mree is 5 years old, her case automatically meets the Dallas Police Department's definition of a critical missing child, as laid out in the department's General Orders, revised in November 2024. Under that policy, any child under 10, or one with a diminished mental capacity or a medical condition requiring continual supervision, qualifies for the designation once reported missing. The department's Missing Persons Squad also notes there is no mandatory waiting period before someone can report a missing person or juvenile runaway in Dallas.
A critical missing classification triggers an immediate 24-hour active search led by DPD investigators, a faster response than standard runaway reports typically receive, according to WFAA. That designation puts the joint search for A'mree and Briasia under an active, round-the-clock investigation rather than a standard missing-persons process.
Missing-Child Cases Often End in Safe Recovery, Data Shows
Statewide, law enforcement agencies entered 40,309 missing-person reports into national databases in 2025, and 28,229 of those involved children under 18, according to the Texas Center for the Missing. Texas's numbers reflect just one piece of a much larger national picture of missing-juvenile cases.
Nationally, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children supported 32,167 missing-child cases in 2025 and reported that roughly 90 percent of those children were recovered safely. Runaways accounted for 92 percent of all missing-child reports filed with the organization, a category the center says carries elevated risk of violence and exploitation, per its own data.
What's Still Unknown, and Dallas's History With These Cases
WFAA reported in November 2024 that public advocacy from families has previously pushed Dallas police to move faster in reclassifying cases from standard runaway status to critical missing when age or health factors are present. That history offers context for how quickly A'mree's case was elevated given her age.
Dallas police have not said how A'mree and Briasia know each other or detailed what led the two to leave together before dawn. It remains unclear whether investigators suspect a runaway situation, a custodial dispute, or another explanation, and no further details have been released beyond the descriptions circulated in the department's bulletin.
Hoodline previously covered a hidden Dallas apartment search in April, when detectives from multiple North Texas agencies executed search warrants under Texas Penal Code §25.03 to locate a missing juvenile within Dallas County. It is not yet known whether similar multi-agency tactics will be used in the search for A'mree and Briasia.
