Brown Deer police are searching for 14-year-old Ma’Kya Jackson, who was last seen Monday near the intersection of 51st Street and Wabash Avenue in the Village of Brown Deer. Jackson is described as a Black female standing about 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing roughly 103 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Police are asking anyone with information about her whereabouts to come forward.
According to FOX6 News Milwaukee, the Brown Deer Police Department provided the outlet with information and a photo of Jackson as part of the appeal for public help. Anyone with information is asked to contact the department at 414-371-2900 and reference case number 26-013553.
A Familiar Corner, a Second Disappearance
This is not the first time Jackson has gone missing from that same stretch of Brown Deer. FOX6 News Milwaukee reported in May that the 14-year-old had previously been reported missing from the area of 51st Street and Wabash Avenue on May 10, 2026, and was found safe two days later. Monday’s disappearance, first detailed by CBS 58, places her at that exact same intersection roughly three months after her earlier disappearance, a pattern that raises questions about what support or safety measures may be in place for her going forward.
Brown Deer is a small Milwaukee County suburb of about 12,500 residents spread across roughly 4.4 square miles, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. State Highway 100, also known as Brown Deer Road, is a six-lane thoroughfare that cuts through the village, linking the North Shore suburbs to commercial corridors and Milwaukee’s Northwest Side, per the Village of Brown Deer. The village also borders Milwaukee’s Far Northwest Side, an area patrolled by the Milwaukee Police Department’s District 4, headquartered on West Silver Spring Drive, Hoodline has reported.
How Missing Child Cases Are Handled
Under federal law, including Suzanne’s Law — a provision of the 2003 PROTECT Act — law enforcement agencies must enter missing child reports for anyone under 21 into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database within two hours, with no mandatory waiting period, according to guidance published by the Sturgeon Bay Police Department. That requirement is meant to dispel the common misconception that police must wait a set period before acting on a missing child report.
Statewide, the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation runs the Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited Children and Adults, which coordinates Missing Child Alerts and Crime Alert Network notices across the state. Under Wisconsin’s alert standards, Missing Child Alerts can be pushed directly to mobile phones through Wireless Emergency Alerts within a five-mile radius of a child’s last known location, but only between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. It remains unclear whether such an alert has been issued in Jackson’s case, and it is a distinct process from a statewide Amber Alert, which carries its own separate criteria tied to suspected abduction.
The Brown Deer Police Department is headquartered at 4800 West Green Brook Drive inside Village Hall and holds state accreditation through the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Accreditation Group. Statewide data compiled by Wisconsin missing persons advocacy groups found that of 480 missing person cases reported in 2023, 444 individuals were eventually located and marked safe, offering some broader context for how these cases in Wisconsin typically resolve.
Part of a Busy Stretch for Milwaukee-Area Searches
Jackson’s disappearance comes amid a string of recent missing juvenile cases in the Milwaukee area. Hoodline reported a missing Milwaukee teen found safe just days earlier, and also covered a separate search for a missing 10-year-old on Milwaukee’s West Side around the same time. Brown Deer itself has seen this kind of community search before — Hoodline covered a 2024 search for a missing 10-year-old boy in the village, an episode that similarly drew an urgent public appeal from Wisconsin authorities.
For now, police have released only Jackson’s physical description and the case number tied to the investigation. Anyone with information about where she might be is urged to call Brown Deer police.
