A 12-year-old boy is missing from Roxbury, and Boston Police detectives are asking residents to help track him down. Armando Suarez was last seen in the Annunciation Road area. Suarez has mental health complications and remains unaccounted for.
Boston police are searching for Suarez, according to The Dorchester Post. As reported by NBC Boston, police describe Suarez as a light-skinned Black male with short, curly black hair and brown eyes, standing about 5 feet tall. He was last seen wearing a yellow uniform shirt, black pants, and a red backpack, police said.
Where He Was Last Seen
The Boston Housing Authority lists an Alice H. Taylor location at the Johnson Center at 68 Annunciation Road, according to the Boston Housing Authority.
Anyone with information is asked to call 617-343-4572 or 911. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Boston Police Department's CrimeStoppers system, which lets community members text tips to TIP (27463), call 1-800-494-8477, or submit photos and video online, per the department's own guidance.
Why Police Move Fast on Juvenile Cases
Massachusetts police policies, along with federal mandates including Suzanne's Law, require law enforcement agencies to accept missing child reports immediately, without any waiting period, and to promptly enter juvenile missing records into national databases, according to Mass.gov. Suarez has mental health complications.
Families in crisis can also reach Massachusetts' statewide 24/7 Child Abuse and Missing Child Emergency Line, run by the Baker Center for Children and Families in partnership with the state Department of Children and Families, which coordinates law enforcement and child welfare responses around the clock.
A Previous Roxbury Alert
Hoodline covered a January appeal for 15-year-old Adrianna Goncalves, in which District B-2 detectives were involved: the Goncalves search.
As the search for Armando Suarez continues, police are urging anyone with information, however small, to come forward.
