A Cleveland teenager who vanished nearly a year ago remains missing, and investigators are again asking the public for help finding him. Jashawn Holiday was last seen in the area of the 4000 block of Denison Avenue on September 1, 2025, and has not been located since, according to law enforcement reporting relayed by community missing persons advocacy groups.
Holiday was 14 at the time he disappeared and is now 15, according to FOX 8 News, which reported the case as part of its ongoing missing persons coverage. The Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation lists him at 5 feet 8 inches tall and 130 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair featuring blonde highlights, per the state's official missing child poster. He was last seen wearing black shorts, a white T-shirt, and yellow slides, and the poster notes he has a nose piercing, a detail investigators hope will help the public identify him.
A Long-Running Broadcast Partnership Behind the Search
FOX 8 is working with Amanda Berry, who escaped a decade of captivity in Cleveland in May 2013, to find Holiday. Berry joined WJW in February 2017 to host daily “Missing with Amanda Berry” segments spotlighting missing children and adults across Northeast Ohio, according to MissingKids.org. Her segments feed directly into a broader federal search effort, since the tip line publicized during those broadcasts, 1-866-492-6833, routes calls to joint task force operations led by the U.S. Marshals Service Northern District of Ohio working alongside local police.
That collaboration is formalized under Operation Meridian, a joint initiative the Marshals Service launched in July in partnership with FOX 8 and Berry to locate Northern Ohio's most endangered missing youth, as Hoodline has previously reported. Holiday's case is one of several the operation has publicized in recent weeks, alongside those of other Cleveland-area teens still unaccounted for.
How Missing Child Reports Move Through the System
Once a child is reported missing in Ohio, local police enter the report into the state's Law Enforcement Automated Data System, which automatically feeds into the FBI's National Crime Information Center database, according to the Ohio Attorney General's Office. That cross-jurisdictional tracking is central to cases like Holiday's, which stretch well beyond the typical resolution window. The Ohio Attorney General's 2025 Missing Children Clearinghouse Report, released in May, documented 15,367 missing child cases statewide last year, a decrease of 1,037 compared to 2024.
Of those cases, 97.8 percent, or 15,024 youth, were safely recovered by law enforcement before the year's end, according to state data reported by the Scioto Post. Runaway cases made up the largest single category, accounting for 7,656 of the 15,367 reports filed statewide. Holiday's continued absence nearly a year after he was last seen places his case among the small share that extend well past those typical timelines.
Local Resources for Families Still Searching
Cuyahoga County families searching for missing loved ones can also turn to Cleveland Missing, the Cleveland Family Center for Missing Persons, a nonprofit co-founded by 2013 captivity survivor Gina DeJesus and her cousin Sylvia Colon. The organization offers specialized support to families navigating active investigations. Anyone with information on Jashawn Holiday's whereabouts is asked to call 1-866-492-6833.
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