San Antonio Teen Zeke Richardson, 18, Vanishes Off Babcock Road With Phone Off

An 18-year-old San Antonio man known as Zeke Richardson, who also goes by Leondre, has not been seen since roughly 11 a.m. Wednesday, when he was last spotted in the 2300 block of Babcock Road on the city's Northwest Side. He was wearing a white t-shirt, teal shorts and brown Birkenstock sandals, and carrying a black Sprayground backpack. His cellphone has been powered off since his disappearance, according to the sheriff's office.

The stretch of Babcock Road where Richardson was last seen sits near Wurzbach Road in the South Texas Medical Center corridor, a dense commercial and transit area lined with plazas, apartment complexes and public bus stops, according to KENS 5. Richardson stands 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 175 pounds, and has black eyes and brown hair. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office says it is actively seeking public assistance to locate him.

Why No Statewide Alert Has Been Issued

Because Richardson is an adult, his case does not automatically trigger a statewide emergency broadcast. Texas law only permits a Coordinated Law Enforcement Adult Rescue, or CLEAR, Alert for missing adults between 18 and 64 when a preliminary investigation confirms imminent danger of bodily injury or death, or that the disappearance was involuntary, per the Texas Department of Public Safety. Without that threshold met, investigators lean on local media advisories, social media outreach and a built-in law enforcement notification system instead.

Once a missing person report is entered into the Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, automated alerts are broadcast to every police agency within a 200-mile radius, according to KCENTV. There is also no mandatory waiting period before police can act: under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 63, local departments must accept a missing persons report and start investigating immediately, the same station notes. The CLEAR Alert framework itself traces back to a 2019 push by the family of Cayley Mandadi, a 19-year-old college student abducted and murdered in San Antonio in 2017, according to KIII-TV.

A Dedicated Unit Handling a Heavy Caseload

The search falls to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office's Missing Persons Unit, a team created after the county secured $370,000 in dedicated budget funding to manage a rising number of cases, as Hoodline has previously reported. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar has said his office fields between three and 10 missing person reports every single day. That volume mirrors statewide numbers: the Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse logged 44,783 missing person reports across Texas in 2024, and adults made up roughly 30 percent of all Texas filings in 2025, with more than 12,000 missing adult reports entered into national databases, according to the Texas Center for the Missing.

Investigators have not said what may explain why Richardson's phone is off, and it remains unclear whether any business surveillance footage along the Babcock Road corridor has captured his direction of travel or identified a vehicle involved in his disappearance. Those details, along with any potential destination or contact he may have been headed toward, remain open questions in the investigation.

Richardson's case is one of several active missing person searches Bexar County deputies are currently working across San Antonio, including recent Hoodline coverage of a missing 57-year-old man and a missing 13-year-old on the Far West Side. Anyone with information about Richardson's whereabouts is asked to contact the Bexar County Sheriff's Office Missing Persons Unit at 210-335-6000 or by email at [email protected].