A 15-year-old boy has been missing from a Golden neighborhood for more than a week, last seen in the 16000 block of West 10th Avenue at around 7 p.m. on October 11, according to sheriff's officials. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has issued a Missing Indigenous Person Alert, and Jefferson County deputies are asking anyone with information to come forward.
According to The Denver Post, the missing teen is named Ronald Gutierrez. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has asked the public to help locate him.
What the Teen Was Wearing and How He's Described
The boy is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 125 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, the Post reports. He has a slight mustache and chin hair, along with a tattoo on his left forearm, according to the same account.
At the time he was last seen, he was reportedly wearing a black zip-up hoodie, a gray muscle shirt, black jeans, black shoes and a black Raiders hat with a purple heart on the side, per the Colorado Bureau of Investigation alert cited in the Post's reporting.
Statewide Alert System Aims to Raise Awareness
The Missing Indigenous Person Alert used in this case is part of a program the Colorado Bureau of Investigation established in 2022 to help locate missing Indigenous individuals and bring greater awareness to these cases statewide, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Jefferson County's sheriff's office directs readers to the Jeffcom 911 active-alerts page and separately says that ongoing-emergency updates are shared through its news page and social media, per the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
How to Help
Anyone with information about the missing teen is asked to call 911 or Jefferson County dispatch at 303-980-7300, according to the Post's reporting. The teen's whereabouts remain unknown, and no additional updates on the search have been made public beyond the initial appeal from deputies.
