Midlothian police are searching for 25-year-old Khaalid Rashard Lathrop-Ragland, a Black male last seen at his family's home in the 400 block of Rossville Drive at approximately 7 p.m. last Friday. He was reported missing Monday evening, and his family believes he may not have access to his medication, which was found still at his home. He has no vehicle, and officers describe an unknown clothing description for him at this time.
Officers have been checking businesses along FM 663 and Midlothian Community Park, two places Lathrop-Ragland is known to frequent, according to the Midlothian Police Department - Texas. He stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs approximately 140 pounds, and is known to walk to businesses along the corridor since he has no vehicle of his own. Police have not yet located him.
The FM 663 stretch police are checking includes a 7-Eleven, Jack in the Box, Kroger, and QuikTrip. That commercial strip includes the 53-acre Midlothian Towne Crossing development near U.S. Highway 287, anchored by a 123,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace alongside the QuikTrip and Jack in the Box, and the corridor draws more than 30,000 vehicles daily, according to Crexi commercial property listings. That kind of traffic volume means a large number of potential witnesses could have crossed paths with him without realizing it.
Search Also Covers Sprawling Community Park
Lathrop-Ragland frequently visits Midlothian Community Park on South 14th Street, the other location where officers have concentrated their search. The 105-acre recreational complex at 3601 S. 14th Street includes a one-mile perimeter walking trail, sports fields, a splash pad, and an outdoor amphitheater, per the City of Midlothian. The park's scale and open trail system give searchers a wide area to cover on foot.
Midlothian sits in Ellis County roughly 25 miles southwest of Dallas and had an estimated population of more than 39,000 residents in 2024, with Black or African American residents making up about 11.3% of the community, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The suburb is also heavily vehicle-dependent, with average household car ownership at two vehicles and mean commute times exceeding 31 minutes, which makes a pedestrian traveling without a car along a major arterial like FM 663 relatively distinct, per Census data compiled by Data USA.
Endangered Alert Criteria and Recent Legal History
Texas Department of Public Safety guidelines reserve Endangered Missing Persons alerts for missing adults with medical, cognitive, or developmental conditions whom law enforcement determines are in imminent or life-threatening danger. That standard helps explain why Midlothian police have emphasized that Lathrop-Ragland's family believes he lacks access to his medication, a detail directly tied to the threshold state guidelines require before an adult case is treated as urgent.
Public records reviewed through Ellis County listings show Lathrop-Ragland was arrested in the county on August 7, on charges including theft of property valued between $2,500 and $30,000 and vehicle burglary, according to Jailbirds records. That arrest occurred roughly a month before his family reported him missing.
Statewide, the Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse recorded 44,783 total missing person entries into the FBI's National Crime Information Center in 2024, with adults 18 and older accounting for roughly 29%, or 12,919, of those cases, according to Texas DPS statistics. Within Ellis County specifically, local law enforcement agencies submitted 162 missing person entries into the same database that year. The clearinghouse, established by the Texas Legislature in 1985, runs a 24-hour helpline at 800-346-3243 to help local departments and families coordinate searches, including across state lines.
Hoodline reported that the Midlothian police have a recent history of sustained public engagement on unresolved cases, including the still-unsolved Missy Bevers killing, which marked its tenth anniversary this past April. Anyone with information on Lathrop-Ragland's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Midlothian Police Department at 972-775-3333. Key details, including which direction he may have traveled and what he was wearing when last seen, remain unknown as the search continues.
