A missing person alert was issued on October 12, 2026, for 12-year-old Korie Yoder, a Black male with pink hair who was last seen wearing only a white T-shirt and no shoes. The alert placed him in the 7400 block of Henderson Lane.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office issued the alert on October 12, 2026, in a post timestamped 11:47 p.m. on October 11, 2026, according to a post from EPCSheriff on X
. The post described Yoder in sparse but specific terms: a twelve-year-old Black male with pink hair, wearing a white t-shirt and no shoes, as the alert put it. No further details about the circumstances of his disappearance were included in the notice.
The same post pinned his last known location to the 7400 block of Henderson Lane, instructing anyone who spots him to respond accordingly, per the posted alert. Beyond that single line, the alert did not specify a phone number or additional contact instructions for tipsters.
What an Alert Like This Typically Means
Colorado has a formal category for notices like this one. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation describes what's sometimes called an Endangered Missing Alert, or Media Alert, as a notification sent to media outlets and the public containing information about a missing person and the circumstances of their disappearance, used specifically in cases that fall outside the stricter criteria set by statute or state rules, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. It is not clear from the available information whether the Korie Yoder alert was formally classified under that designation, and nothing in the sheriff's post addressed that question directly.
For now, the known facts remain limited to what the sheriff's office shared: a child's age, his hair color, what he was wearing, and the block where he was last seen. Whether he has since been found, and what led to him going missing in the first place, has not been addressed in any available statement.
