Brooklyn Park police are asking for the public's help finding a 15-year-old girl who vanished over the weekend and whose cellphone went dark after pinging near a Minneapolis block roughly 10 miles from her home. March'e Linda Lashawn Myers was last seen Friday, and investigators have classified her as an endangered missing juvenile, a designation that signals law enforcement believes her disappearance carries an elevated risk rather than fitting the pattern of a routine runaway.
According to CBS News, Myers had gone to spend the weekend at a family member's home in Minneapolis but never returned there. She was reportedly with a friend on Saturday, though that friend told investigators she does not know where Myers is now. Her phone last pinged in the 2000 block of Irving Avenue North, in Minneapolis's Near North community, before it was shut off, the outlet reports.
Myers is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 160 pounds, with black hair and black eyes, per the same report. Brooklyn Park police are asking anyone who has seen her or knows her whereabouts to call the department at 763-493-8222.
Why Police Are Calling Her Endangered
The endangered label is not just descriptive language — it's a legal threshold. Under Minnesota Statute § 299C.52, a missing person under 21 can be designated endangered if officers find evidence suggesting the person may be at risk of physical injury or death, whether due to a non-voluntary disappearance, dangerous circumstances, or an absence of any runaway history.
That classification triggers specific statutory obligations. Minnesota Statute § 299C.53 requires law enforcement agencies to accept missing person reports immediately, without turning families away over how long someone has been gone or whether a runaway is suspected, and mandates prompt consultation with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension once a case is deemed missing and endangered. State guidance treats the first two hours of such an investigation as critical.
A Familiar Pattern of Searches — and Resolutions
Brooklyn Park, the sixth largest city in Minnesota, serves more than 86,000 residents across 27 square miles in Hennepin County and maintains a dedicated Juvenile Unit within its police department focused on youth cases and community engagement, according to the City of Brooklyn Park. The department has handled several missing-juvenile cases in recent months. In June, Brooklyn Park police and the BCA safely located a missing 15-year-old girl who had disappeared from the 9400 block of Decatur Drive North. Just days before Myers went missing, neighboring Fridley police canceled a public alert after finding a 15-year-old boy who had been missing for three days.
Statewide, the numbers suggest most cases like this end with a family reunion. Between January and July of this year, Minnesota law enforcement agencies entered 2,656 juvenile missing person cases into state and federal databases, and 2,631 juvenile cases were canceled upon resolution in that same window, per data from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. In 2025, the department logged 8,358 missing person reports statewide, including 4,007 involving females and 2,231 involving Black or African American individuals.
Brooklyn Park has turned to the public for help before. Earlier this month, the department sought assistance locating a 35-year-old mother and her two young children who had vanished after leaving home in an Indiana-plated Honda. It remains unclear whether Minneapolis police or investigators canvassing the Near North neighborhood near Irving Avenue North have gathered surveillance footage or witness statements connected to Myers's disappearance. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to contact Brooklyn Park police.
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