Timberwood Park Teen William Myers, 15, Missing After Vanishing on Foot

A 15-year-old boy is missing after he was last seen walking alone in the 900 block of Misty Water Lane, a residential street in the Timberwood Park subdivision of North Bexar County, on Friday. William Myers was wearing a maroon t-shirt and black sweatpants when he was last spotted, and his current whereabouts remain unknown.

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help locating Myers, who is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 143 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Timberwood Park is an unincorporated neighborhood near Highway 281, according to Realtor.com, which places the search area in the far northern reaches of the county.

Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 210-335-6000 or send a tip to the Missing Persons Unit at [email protected]. The sheriff's office has also warned that anyone found to be harboring a missing juvenile can face criminal charges — a warning grounded in Texas law, which makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine, for an adult to knowingly shelter a minor without notifying parents or police within 24 hours, per FindLaw.

A Legal Distinction for Runaway Minors

Under Texas Family Code Section 51.03, running away from home is treated as a status offense rather than a crime for youth 16 and younger, designating the minor as a “child in need of supervision” instead of a criminal offender, according to the DFPS Texas Youth Helpline. That framework is designed to shield minors from prosecution while still giving authorities the power to reunite them with legal guardians once located. Separately, state law requires that once a missing child report is filed, agencies must enter the child's information into the National Crime Information Center database within two hours, a mandate laid out in Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 63.00905.

It is not yet known whether Myers left voluntarily or under other circumstances, and whether he has access to a phone or other means of communication has not been disclosed. Nationally, voluntary runaways account for 80% to 85% of missing child reports, while non-family abductions make up 3% to 4% and stranger abductions represent less than 1%, according to figures from the Texas Center for the Missing. Regardless of the initial classification, law enforcement treats every missing juvenile report with urgency.

A Stretched System Gets New Resources

Myers's disappearance comes amid a heavy stretch of missing-juvenile cases for Bexar County deputies. In the past several days alone, the sheriff's office has also sought the public's help locating 15-year-old Avery Carol Robles, 13-year-old Andres Juan-Woods, and 18-year-old Zeke Richardson — a cluster of active alerts that reflects the sheer volume of cases the department handles. Hoodline has covered Zeke's disappearance as well as the searches for Avery and Andres.

To address that caseload, Bexar County commissioners approved $370,000 in the fiscal year 2026 budget to create a dedicated Missing Persons Unit within the sheriff's office, adding a full-time investigator and administrative clerk, according to reporting from the San Antonio Report. Before that unit existed, deputies were fielding between three and 10 missing person reports every day while juggling a backlog of more than 600 open cases, often alongside homicide duties.

Statewide, the scale of the problem is significant. Out of 40,309 total missing person reports filed across Texas in 2025, juveniles under 18 accounted for 28,229 of them — more than 70 percent of all entries — according to the Texas Center for the Missing. San Antonio itself was ranked among the top 10 U.S. cities for unresolved missing persons cases in a January 2024 report from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, which recorded 157 open cases in the city at that time, as reported by KENS 5.

No further details about Myers's disappearance have been released. The sheriff's office has not said whether search efforts include specialized resources such as drones, tracking dogs, or neighborhood surveillance footage. Anyone with information on his location is urged to contact the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.