Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help finding a 14-year-old girl who vanished from her Northeast Philadelphia home earlier this week. Jalayna Rivera was last seen Wednesday around 11 a.m. at her residence on the 1300 block of Dyre Street, and she has not been located since.
The Philadelphia Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in locating 14-year-old Jalayna Rivera, according to a department bulletin. The bulletin lists the case under the department's 15th District, and Newport Dispatch also reported on Rivera's disappearance.
Police describe Rivera as a Hispanic female standing 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing approximately 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. When she was last seen, she was wearing a black hoodie with red writing and carrying a pink bookbag, according to the same bulletin.
How to Help Find Her
Anyone with information regarding Jalayna Rivera's whereabouts is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department by calling 911 or the department's tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477), per the bulletin. No further details about the circumstances of her disappearance have been released.
The 15th District has issued more than one missing-juvenile bulletin in recent days; a separate notice concerned Franklin Gibson, who was last seen a day earlier, on Tuesday, October 20, at Penny Packer School. That case was reported through the same police channel and remains distinct from Rivera's.
Missing-juvenile cases have surfaced periodically across the city this year. In August, Hoodline reported on an 11-year-old who had been missing from West Philly for days, with police at the time believing she may have been in Brewerytown. That case was unrelated to Rivera's disappearance, but it underscores how seriously the department treats these searches. For now, authorities continue to ask residents in the Dyre Street area and beyond to come forward with any information that could help bring Rivera home.
