Two young siblings have been missing for three weeks from a rural stretch of far east Bexar County, and the Bexar County Sheriff's Office is still asking the public for help finding them. Asaad Jackson and Zadeyah Monica Jackson were last seen around 3 a.m. on September 5 near the 4600 block of East Loop 1604, in an area investigators have pinpointed as Adkins, an unincorporated community east of San Antonio.
The exact age of one of the missing children is unclear, with differing accounts from local media. As reported by WOAI, Asaad is 7 years old, while Zadeyah is 9. However, San Antonio television station KSAT reported that the Sheriff's Office listed Asaad as 5 years old alongside the 9-year-old Zadeyah, a discrepancy that has not been publicly resolved.
According to the missing-person notice, Asaad stands 4 feet 8 inches tall, weighs about 100 pounds, and has black eyes and brown hair. Zadeyah is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighing around 120 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. The precise location where the two were last seen, per the Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse, sits along a rural corridor of Loop 1604 in an unincorporated part of the county.
How AMBER Alerts Are Evaluated
As general context, the Texas Department of Public Safety says statewide AMBER Alert criteria include a preliminary investigation verifying an abduction and eliminating alternative explanations for a child's disappearance. The reports cited here do not establish whether an AMBER Alert was activated in the Jackson siblings' case.
A Dedicated Missing-Persons Unit
Bexar County commissioners approved $370,000 in the fiscal year 2025–2026 budget to establish a dedicated Missing Persons Unit within the Sheriff's Office, adding a full-time investigator and an administrative clerk, according to the San Antonio Report.
The county's fiscal year 2025–2026 budget also included $1.3 million for 22 new Sheriff's Office patrol positions, within a $2.8 billion overall budget, according to Community Impact.
State Law Requires Immediate Action
Texas law leaves no room for delay in missing-child cases. Under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 63.009, law enforcement agencies are barred from imposing any waiting period before accepting a missing child report, and must enter the report into state and national databases within two hours.
Statewide numbers underscore how common these cases are. Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse records show juveniles under 18 accounted for 28,229 of the state's 40,309 missing person reports filed in 2025, representing more than 70 percent of all cases. Research compiled by the Texas Center for the Missing indicates voluntary runaways make up 80 to 85 percent of all missing child reports, while non-family abductions account for just 3 to 4 percent and stranger abductions represent less than 1 percent.
Recent Recovery Efforts Across San Antonio
Local agencies have leaned on coordinated operations to chip away at the backlog of open cases. In August 2026, a multi-agency initiative called Operation Lightning Bug II — combining the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, and the San Antonio Police Department — successfully located 45 missing and endangered children across the region, per the San Antonio Report's earlier coverage.
San Antonio has also drawn national attention for its volume of unresolved cases. Statistics from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System ranked the city among the top 10 in the U.S. for unresolved missing-persons cases, recording 157 open cases as of January 2024. That backdrop follows Hoodline's recent coverage of missing San Antonio teen Erilyn Ibarra, another case that remains open in the county.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Asaad Jackson or Zadeyah Monica Jackson is asked to contact the Bexar County Sheriff's Office at (210) 335-6000 or the BCSO Missing Persons Unit at [email protected].
