Houston police are asking for the public's help finding 35-year-old Julian Ramirez, who was last seen Monday in the Westchase area of West Houston and has been classified as endangered. Ramirez was last spotted on South Gessner Road near Westheimer Road, wearing a blue T-shirt and green cargo shorts, according to police. He is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing around 180 pounds.
Houston police said Ramirez is endangered after going missing, though as reported by FOX 26 Houston, investigators have not publicly disclosed the specific medical conditions or circumstances that led to that designation. The report does not say that a statewide Texas CLEAR Alert was considered, requested or issued for Ramirez. That alert system, created under Texas law in 2019, allows for statewide emergency notifications when a missing adult between 18 and 65 is believed to be in imminent danger of bodily injury or death, or when the disappearance is involuntary, per the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Anyone with information on Ramirez's whereabouts is asked to contact Houston police patrol at 713-884-3131 or the department's Missing Persons Division at 832-394-1840. Houston police are the source of the information released about Ramirez's disappearance and appearance so far, and no further physical description details have been made public.
A High-Traffic Corridor With Recent Police Activity
The stretch of South Gessner Road near Westheimer sits in West Houston's Westchase district, a dense commercial and residential corridor lined with major multi-family housing complexes and heavy vehicular traffic, according to the same Hoodline reporting on the area's double death investigation earlier this month. That case unfolded on September 4 at an apartment complex on Ella Lee Lane when Houston police responded to a double death investigation. The area has also seen other recent police activity, including a June body discovery at Westchase apartments and an August drive-by shooting in nearby Brays Oaks.
The neighborhood falls under Houston Police Department's Mid West Patrol Division, which covers a 16-square-mile stretch of southwest Houston and serves an estimated population of more than 154,000 residents. That division relies on dedicated crime suppression units and community partnerships to cover its territory, a workload that mirrors broader staffing pressures facing missing persons investigators across the region.
A Regional Pattern of Overloaded Caseloads
Ramirez's case adds to a substantial volume of missing adult reports handled locally each year. The Texas Center for the Missing recorded 3,327 new missing adult cases filed in Harris County in 2025 alone, part of 4,159 missing adult reports logged across the 14-county Houston-Galveston region, according to the organization's data. The same data shows the two largest law enforcement agencies serving that region investigated more than 11,000 total missing persons cases across all age groups in 2025 with just 24 dedicated investigators on staff.
Statewide, the Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse tracks missing-person entries in the FBI National Crime Information Center database.
Families and community members searching for missing adults in the region sometimes turn to outside resources beyond police departments. Dickinson-based nonprofit Texas EquuSearch, founded in 2000, conducts volunteer foot, horse, and ATV searches for missing adults and children, according to KHOU. Houston residents can also explore other local options.
As of Wednesday, official search parameters for Ramirez remain undisclosed, and police have not released additional details beyond his last known location and physical description. Anyone with information is urged to contact Houston police patrol or the Missing Persons Division at the numbers provided above.
