A 17-year-old has gone missing from his home in Centerville, and Camden County Police are once again asking the public for help finding him. Amor Walker was reported missing from his residence on the 1800 block of South 10th Street, according to official public notices, and investigators say he is known to frequent both Centerville and the adjacent Whitman Park neighborhood.
Description and Last Known Sighting
Walker is described as a Black male, 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, according to Newport Dispatch. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants and black shoes. The specific street-level detail of his South 10th Street address, confirmed by TomsRiver.org, could help narrow local search efforts in the compact South Camden residential corridor.
Walker was the subject of a September 2025 missing-person case; the October 2026 report is a new case, not a repeat.
A Neighborhood With a History of Missing Youth Alerts
The 1800 block of South 10th Street has seen other missing juvenile alerts in recent years, including notices for 15-year-old Isaac Pacheco in May 2023 and 11-year-old Aiden Baker in late 2025, according to the same historical reporting. Whitman Park, the secondary area where Walker is known to frequent, is a neighborhood of roughly 6,981 residents with a 12.3% housing vacancy rate and housing stock dating back before 1939, per data compiled by NeighborhoodScout. Centerville itself has one of the highest concentrations of single-mother households in the country, with 39.9% of homes falling into that category, placing it in the top 0.1% of American neighborhoods for that measure, the same source notes.
Camden has also logged several other recent teen disappearances nearby. Hoodline has reported on searches for missing 17-year-olds Zavier Cooks and Matias Polo, as well as Azuree Butler and 16-year-old Brihana Cruz, both of whom were last seen in Whitman Park, and 13-year-old Christopher Marrero, who was also known to frequent Centerville.
Legal Protocols Require Immediate Police Action
Under New Jersey's Patricia's Law, enacted in 2007, law enforcement agencies statewide are required to accept missing person reports immediately and without any waiting period, according to the New Jersey State Police. State guidelines developed under the law also allow the receiving municipal agency to serve as lead investigator while permitting immediate escalation to the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons and Child Exploitation Unit in high-risk cases involving vulnerable missing youth.
Camden County Police Department conducts its search for Walker against a backdrop of broader public safety improvement in the city. Camden saw a 2% drop in overall crime in 2025, part of a longer-term 49% reduction in total crime and a 53% drop in violent crime since the county department replaced the former municipal force in 2013, according to the Camden County Board of Commissioners.
National Context for Missing Teen Cases
Nationally, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children assisted with 32,167 missing child cases in 2025 and achieved a 90% overall recovery rate, according to MissingKids.org. The organization's data also shows that endangered runaways account for 92% of all missing child reports submitted nationwide, and separate research compiled by the Missing Child Project indicates that teenagers aged 15 to 17 make up approximately 74% of all endangered runaway cases reported to authorities, placing Walker within the age group most commonly represented in these alerts.
Anyone with information on Amor Walker's whereabouts is asked to call the Camden County Police Department tip line at (856) 757-7042.
