Hendersonville Police are asking the public for help locating a 13-year-old boy who was last seen riding a gray BMX bicycle in a residential corridor on the city's northwest side. Logan Seay was last seen Saturday in the area of Haywood Road and Dawnview Drive, wearing a black t-shirt with white lettering and black shorts. His direction of travel remains unknown.
The search was first reported by WYFF4, which cited the Hendersonville Police Department's public appeal for information on Seay's whereabouts. Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 828-697-3025. The department, which operates as the city's sole municipal police precinct out of its headquarters on Ashe Street, handles missing person investigations across Hendersonville's roughly 7.4-square-mile jurisdiction, according to the City of Hendersonville.
Haywood Road, also known as NC-191, and Dawnview Drive sit in northwest Hendersonville, where homes and local businesses are found near Haywood Road, per local geographic records. Hendersonville itself, the county seat of Henderson County, sits roughly 22 miles south of Asheville in the Blue Ridge mountains and is home to an estimated 15,100 to 15,900 residents as of recent U.S. Census data.
A Familiar Pattern for Local Police
This is the second time in just over a week that Hendersonville Police have asked the public to help find a missing 13-year-old. Hoodline previously reported on the search for Logan Edward Vinson, another 13-year-old who was reported missing from a local neighborhood park while riding a scooter just eight days earlier. That earlier case involved a 13-year-old reported missing from a local neighborhood park.
The department has a history of turning to public outreach in similar cases. In April 2024, officers issued a missing juvenile notice for 14-year-old Jonathan Timothy Jones, who left home overnight before being safely recovered, according to a notice shared by the Hendersonville Police Department. That case, like Seay's, relied on social media and local news alerts rather than an emergency broadcast.
Why an AMBER Alert Isn't in Play
Cases like Seay's don't trigger a statewide AMBER Alert because North Carolina law sets a strict bar for that emergency system. Under state statute, AMBER Alerts require a child to be 17 or younger, believed to have been criminally abducted, and explicitly not believed to be a runaway or voluntarily missing, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. A juvenile last seen alone on a bicycle, with no indication of abduction, falls outside those criteria.
That doesn't mean the case goes unaddressed by the state. North Carolina law separately requires that local agencies receiving a missing person report immediately notify all on-duty officers, initiate a statewide law enforcement broadcast, and enter the individual's information into the FBI's National Crime Information Center database, per state statute cited by Justia Law. Those mandatory steps apply regardless of whether a case meets AMBER Alert eligibility.
North Carolina also launched a centralized Missing Child Repository database in March 2025, giving law enforcement and the public a clearinghouse for names and photos of missing children statewide even when AMBER Alert criteria aren't met, according to WCNC.
Runaways Make Up Bulk of Statewide Reports
The volume of cases like Seay's is significant statewide. North Carolina authorities received 8,758 reports of missing children in 2024, the majority involving runaway juveniles who voluntarily returned home, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. State authorities note that habitual runaways can contribute multiple report entries in a single year.
It remains unknown whether Seay has any known destinations, prior runaway history, or personal items beyond his gray BMX bike.
